Methods and systems for detection of somatic structural variants

ABSTRACT

Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and computer program products that utilize long-range phase information to detect subtle chromosome imbalances in genotype data. Clonal expansions result from mutation followed by selective proliferation, and the embodiments disclosed herein may be used to somatic structural variant events (SVs) predictive or diagnostic of cancer and other diseases.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No.62/573,642, filed Oct. 17, 2017. The entire contents of theabove-identified application are hereby fully incorporated herein byreference.

STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH

This invention was made with government support under grant numbersHG007805 awarded by the National Institutes of Health, HG006855 grantedby the National Human Genome Research Institute, and W81XWH-16-1-0315and W81WH-16-1-0316 awarded by the Department of Defense. The governmenthas certain rights in the invention.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The subject matter disclosed herein is generally directed tocomputer-based methods, products, and systems for detecting somaticstructural variants from long range phasing data.

BACKGROUND

Clonal expansions of blood cells harboring somatic mutations are oftenobserved in individuals not known to have cancer. The somatic mutationsobserved in clonal expansions cluster non-randomly across the genome andare enriched at genes commonly mutated in cancer; consistent with theidea that detectable clonal mosaicism is often a precancerous state,such mosaicism confers >10× increased risk of future hematologicalmalignancy. Several results suggest potential contributions of inheritedvariation to the likelihood of clonal mosaicism. While previous studieshave explored the health consequences of mosaicism in aggregate acrossthe genome, the effects of specific somatic mutations on incidentcancers have been challenging to quantify beyond the common loss ofchromosome Y (mLOY) event.

The limiting factor in almost all studies of clonal mosaicism has beensample size, with earlier insights arising from up to ˜1,000 mosaicevents that were detectable genome-wide. Two key factors determine thenumber of detectable mosaic mutations: (i) the number of individualsanalyzed, and (ii) the ability to detect clonal expansions present atlow-to-modest cell fractions.

SUMMARY

In certain example embodiments, methods to identify somatic structuralvariants comprises determining total and relative allelic intensitiesfor one or more samples, masking constitutional segmental duplicationsin each sample, identifying a putative set of somatic SV events for eachsample, and defining a final set of somatic SV events for each samplebased at least in part on application of a likelihood ratio test to theputative set of somatic SV events. Determining total and relativeallelic frequencies may comprise converting genotype intensity data intolog R₂ ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF) values. Segmentalduplications may be masked based at least in part on modeling observedphased BAF deviations. In certain example embodiments, modeling observedBAF deviations comprises modeling across individual chromosomes using a25-state hidden Markov model (HMM) with states corresponding to pBAFvalues. In certain example embodiments, selecting regions to maskcomprises computing a Viterbi path through the HMM and examiningcontinuous regions of non-zero states.

In certain example embodiments, identifying a putative set of SV eventsmay comprise use of a 3-state HMM. The 3-state HMM may be parameterizedby a single parameter representing mean |ΔBAF| within a given somatic SVevent.

In certain example embodiments, the method may further compriseidentifying a chromosomal location of each identified SV event. Incertain other example embodiments, the method may further compriseidentifying a copy number of each identified somatic SV event. Incertain example embodiments, the method may further comprises detectingmultiple sub-clonal events for each identified somatic SV event. Incertain example embodiments, identifying the chromosomal location ofeach identified somatic SV event comprises taking 5 samples from theposterior of the 3-state HMM and determining the boundaries of each SVevent based on a consensus of the 5 samples. In certain exampleembodiments, determining the copy number of each identified somatic SVevent comprises determining a relative probability that the event was aloss, CNN-LOH, or gain based at least in part on the LRR and |ΔBAF|deviation. In certain example embodiments, detecting multiple sub-clonalevents comprises re-analyzing each identified somatic SV using Viterbidecoding on a 51-state HMM with |ΔBAF| levels ranging from 0.01 to 0.25in multiplicative increments.

In some embodiments, further comprising detecting a disease orsusceptibility to a disease based on detection of the one or moresomatic SV events. In some embodiments, the disease is cancer. In someembodiments, the cancer comprises a hematological cancer. In someembodiments, the hematological cancer is a leukemia. In someembodiments, the leukemia is chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In someembodiments, the detected one or more SV events comprise one or more SVevents selected from Table 13.

In another aspect, the present disclosure includes computer programproducts, comprising: a non-transitory computer-executable storagedevice having computer-readable program instructions embodied thereonthat when executed by a computer cause the computer to detect somaticstructural variants (SVs) from genotyping data, the computer-executableprogram instructions comprising: computer-executable program instructionto determine total and relative allelic intensities for one or moresamples; computer-executable program instructions to mask constitutionalsegmental duplications; computer-executable program instructions toidentify a putative set of somatic SV events for each sample in the oneor more samples; and computer-executable program instructions to defineone or more somatic SV events for each sample of the one or moresamples.

In some embodiments, the products further comprise computer-executableprogram instruction to locate a chromosomal location of each identifiedsomatic SV event for each sample in the one or more samples. In someembodiments, the products further comprise computer-executable programinstructions to determine a copy number of each identified somatic SVevent. In some embodiments, the products further comprisecomputer-executable program instruction to detect multiple sub-clonalevents for each identified somatic SV. In some embodiments, determiningtotal and relative allelic frequencies comprises converting genotypeintensity data into log R₂ ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF)values. In some embodiments, identifying the putative set of somatic SVevents comprises use of a 3-state HMM. In some embodiments, the 3-stateHMM is parameterized by a single parameter representing mean |ΔBAF|within a given somatic SV event.

In some embodiments, the products further comprise detecting a diseaseor susceptibility to a disease based on detection of the one or moresomatic SV events. In some embodiments, the disease is cancer. In someembodiments, the cancer is a hematological cancer. In some embodiments,the hematological cancer is a leukemia. In some embodiments, theleukemia is chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

In another aspect, the present disclosure includes systems to detect oneor somatic SV events, the system comprising: a storage device; and aprocessor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein theprocessor executes application code instructions that are stored in thestorage device and that cause the system to: determine total andrelative allelic intensities for one or more samples; maskconstitutional segmental duplications; identify a putative set ofsomatic SV events for each sample in the one or more samples; and defineone or more somatic SV events for each sample of the one or moresamples.

In another aspect, the present disclosure includes kits comprisingreagents for determining allelic frequencies and the computer programproducts or systems described herein.

In another aspect, the present disclosure includes methods for detectingpresence or susceptibility of a condition in subject, the methodcomprising detecting one or more somatic structural variants usingmethods described herein in nucleic acids in a sample from the subject,wherein presence or absence of the one or more somatic structuralvariants indicates the presence or susceptibility of the condition.

In some embodiments, the nucleic acids are cell-free nucleic acids. Insome embodiments, the sample is maternal blood and the cell-free nucleicacids are fetal cell-free nucleic acids. In some embodiments, thecell-free nucleic acids are circulating tumor DNA. In some embodiments,the condition is fetal aneuploidy. In some embodiments, the condition iscancer. In some embodiments, the methods further comprise performing amedical procedure based on the detected presence or susceptibility ofthe condition.

These and other aspects, objects, features, and advantages of theexample embodiments will become apparent to those having ordinary skillin the art upon consideration of the following detailed description ofillustrated example embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

An understanding of the features and advantages of the present inventionwill be obtained by reference to the following detailed description thatsets forth illustrative embodiments, in which the principles of theinvention may be utilized, and the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1—is a block diagram depicting a system for detecting somaticstructural variants, in accordance with certain example embodiments.

FIG. 2—is a block flow diagram depicting a method for detecting somaticstructural variants in genotyping data, in accordance with certainexample embodiments.

FIG. 3—is a block diagram depicting a computing machine and a module, inaccordance with certain example embodiments.

FIG. 4—Each horizontal line corresponds to a single somatic SV; a totalof 5,562 autosomal events in 4,889 unique individuals are displayed.Applicant detected an additional, 2,780 chromosome X events in females(mostly whole-chromosome losses). Detected events are color coded bycopy number (loss=red, CNN-LOH=green, gain=blue, unknown=gray). Focaldeletions are labeled in red with names of putative target genes whenpossible. Loci influencing nearby somatic SVs are labeled in the colorof the SV. Enlarged per-chromosome plots are provided in FIGS. 12-34.

FIGS. 5A-5F—Distributional properties of detected somatic SVs. (FIG. 5A)Log 2 R ratio (LRR), a measure of total allelic intensity, scalesroughly linearly with B-allele frequency (BAF) deviation, a measure ofrelative allelic intensity, among events with each copy number [1, 2,8]. (FIG. 5B) Autosomes with more gain events tend to have fewer lossevents (excluding deletions involving V(D)J recombination on chromosomes14 and 22). (FIG. 5C) Most individuals with a detected autosomal somaticSV have only one event, although a larger number than expected (441 vs.100) have multiple events. Several pairs of SV types co-occur much morefrequently than expected by chance; edge weights in the co-occurrencegraph scale with enrichment. (FIG. 5D) Rates of detectable mosaicismincrease as a function of age, especially for female loss of chromosomeX. Error bars, 95% CI. (FIG. 5E) Carriers of different SV types havedifferent age and sex distributions. Error bars, s.e.m. (FIG. 5F)Different SVs are significantly enriched (FDR 0.05) among individualswith anomalous blood counts in different blood lineages. Numeric dataare provided in Tables 1-6

FIGS. 6A-6E—Repeat expansions at fragile site FRA10B driving breakage at10q25.2. The top panels (a-c) display UK Biobank analyses and the bottompanels (d,e) display SFARI analyses. (FIG. 6A) Germline variants at10q25.2 associate strongly with terminal 10q mosaic deletion in UKBiobank. Note that the left boundaries of the deletions are called witherror; the true breakpoints are probably near-identical. (FIG. 6B) UKBiobank carriers of terminal 10q deletion are predominantly female andhave an age distribution similar to that of the overall studypopulation. (FIG. 6C) All UK Biobank carriers of the deletion carry thers118137427:G minor allele. (FIG. 6D) SFARI samples with terminal 10qdeletion (two parent-child duos) carry inherited expanded repeats atFRAM. (FIG. 6E) All SFARI carriers of expanded repeats at FRA10B carrythe rs118137427:G minor allele.

FIGS. 7A-7C—Novel loci associated with somatic SVs in cis due to clonalselection. In each locus, as shown in FIGS. 7A, 7B, and 7C,respectively, one or more inherited genetic variants causes chromosomalmutations to create a proliferative advantage. Genomic modifications areillustrated in the top part of each panel and association signals areplotted in the bottom. Independent lead associated variants are labeled,and variants are colored according to linkage disequilibrium with leadvariants (scaled for readability). In FIG. 7C, the differing arrowweights to CNN-LOH and loss events indicate that CNN-LOH is the morecommon scenario (both in the population and among carriers of the riskvariant; FIGS. 18 and 38).

FIGS. 8A-8E—Associations between somatic SVs and incident cancers andmortality. (FIG. 8A) Multiple SV types confer increased risk of incidentcancer diagnosed >1 year after DNA collection. (FIG. 8B, FIG. 8C) Alogistic model including mosaic status (particularly for 13q deletionand trisomy 12) along with other risk factors achieves highout-of-sample prediction accuracy for incident CLL. (FIG. 8D) Time tomalignancy tracks inversely with clonal cell fraction in individualswith detectable clonality (of any SV) and incident CLL. (FIG. 8E) Loss,gain, and CNN-LOH events (on any autosome) all confer increasedmortality risk. Numeric data are provided in Tables 12 and 13.

FIGS. 9A-9C—This UK Biobank sample (1282743) has a mosaic deletion ofchr13 from roughly 31-53 Mb that cannot be confidently called fromunphased B allele frequency (BAF) and log 2 R ratio (LRR) data alone(FIG. 9A, FIG. 9C). However, the existence of an event is evident in thephased BAF data (FIG. 9B), and the regional decrease in LRR indicatesthat this event is a deletion

FIGS. 10A-10C—This UK Biobank sample (2480737) has a mosaic CNN-LOH onchr9p from the 9p telomere to roughly 27 Mb that cannot be confidentlycalled from unphased B allele frequency (BAF) data (FIG. 10A) but isevident in phased BAF data (FIG. 10B). A phase switch error causes asign flip in phased BAF at 20 Mb. The lack of a shift in log 2 R ratio(LRR) in the region (FIG. 10C) indicates that this event is a CNN-LOH.

FIGS. 11A-11C—This UK Biobank sample (2961290) has a full-chromosomemosaic event on chr12 that cannot be confidently called from unphased Ballele frequency (BAF) and log 2 R ratio (LRR) data alone (FIG. 11A,FIG. 11C) but is evident in phased BAF data (FIG. 11B). Several phaseswitch errors cause sign flips in phased BAF across chr12. The slightpositive shift in mean LRR (FIG. 11C) indicates that this event is mostlikely a mosaic gain of chr12.

FIG. 12—FIG. 34—each figure provides detected mosaic SV events on eachchromosome in an example sample set. Specific chromosome being analyzedis indicated at top of each figure. Events are color-coded bycopy-number: loss (red), CNN-LOH (green), gain (blue), unknown (grey).Darker coloring indicates higher allelic fraction. Multiple eventswithin a single individual are plotted with the same y-coordinate (atthe top of the plot). Note that events with unknown copy number alsogenerally have greater uncertainty in their boundaries due to lowallelic fraction

FIG. 35—total vs. relative allelic intensities of somatic SVs detectedon each chromosome. Mean log 2 R ratio (LRR) of each detected SV isplotted against estimated change in B allele frequency at heterozygoussites (|ΔBAF|)

FIG. 36—Sensitivity of phase concordance-based statistical test fordetecting somatic SVs. For each somatic SV called by our algorithm(red=loss, green=CNN-LOH, blue=gain, grey=unknown copy number), wecomputed a binomial P-value using the phase concordance test of ref.[54]. This test makes use of relative haplotype phase between successiveheterozygous SNPs but does not take advantage of long-range phaseinformation. We plotted the inferred cell fraction of each SV againstits phase concordance P-value. (For events with uncertain copy number,we did not infer a cell fraction, so these events are plotted on thex-axis.) Applicants observed that the majority of events detectable byour analysis do not reach nominal significance using the phaseconcordance test, as expected for subtle allelic imbalances that must beaggregated in-phase over tens of megabases in order to be detectable.

FIG. 37—Extent of clonal proliferation of somatic SVs detected on eachchromosome. For each somatic SV called as a loss, CNN-LOH, or gain, weestimate its allelic fraction (i.e., fraction of blood cells with theSV) from LRR and |ΔBAF| The violin plots show allelic fractiondistributions stratified by chromosome and copy number (whenever atleast ten events were called).

FIG. 38—Genomic coverage by somatic loss and CNN-LOH events. The red andgreen curves indicate the total numbers of detected somatic losses (red)and CNN-LOHs (green) covering each position in the genome.

FIGS. 39A-39B—No evidence for mosaic 16p11.2 deletion in SFARI samples.Read depth profile plots in chr6:25-35 Mb (one line per SFARIindividual) show no evidence of individuals carrying the 16p11.2deletions we observed in UK Biobank (FIG. 27). (FIG. 39A) Roughly 30samples (red) exhibit read dropout throughout the region, likely due totechnical effects. (FIG. 39B) One sample has a candidate mosaicduplication from ˜26.8-31.9 Mb.

FIG. 40—Age distribution of individuals with high-confidence andlower-confidence somatic SV calls. Age distributions were generated for(i) “high-quality” detected events passing a stringent FDR threshold of0.01 (green) and (ii) “low-quality” detected events below the FDRthreshold of 0.01 but passing an FDR threshold of 0.05 (red). Thesedistributions were compared to the overall age distribution of UKBiobank participants (blue), excluding a few individuals with agesoutside the 40-70 range. Based on the numbers of events in eachcategory, ≈20% of low-quality detected events are expected to be falsepositives. To sanity-check the FDR estimation procedure, the low-qualityage distribution was regressed on the high-quality and overall agedistributions, reasoning that the low-quality age distribution should bea mixture of (a) correctly called events with age distribution similarto that of the high-quality events and (b) spurious calls with agedistribution similar to the overall sample. A regression weight of 0.30was observed for the component corresponding to spurious calls, in goodagreement with the estimated false positive rate.

FIG. 41—Replication of previous association between JAK2 46/1 haplotypeand 9p CNN-LOH in cis due to clonal selection. The common JAK2 46/1haplotype has previously been shown to confer risk of somatic JAK2 V617Fmutation such that subsequent 9p CNN-LOH produces a strong proliferativeadvantage [13-16, 18]. In the analysis, CNN-LOH on 9p is stronglyassociated with JAK2 46/1 (P=1.6×10-13; OR=2.7 (2.1-3.5)) with the riskhaplotype predominantly duplicated by CNN-LOH in hets (52/61heterozygous cases; P=1.8×10-8). In this figure, the genomicmodification is illustrated in the top panel and association signals areplotted in the bottom. The lead associated variant is labeled, andvariants are colored according to linkage disequilibrium with the leadvariant (scaled for readability).

FIGS. 42A-42B—Multiple expanded repeats at FRA10B drive breakage at10q25.2. (FIG. 42A) Thirty individuals in SFARI with expanded repeatscarry four distinct repeat motifs with varying degrees of expansion.Repeat motifs are AT-rich and are similar to previously reported FRA10Brepeats [35]. (FIG. 42B) Carriers of the 10q terminal deletion in UKBiobank share long haplotypes at 10q25.2 identical-by-descent. Squarenodes in the IBD graph correspond to males and circles to females. Nodesize is proportional to clonal cell fraction and edge weight increaseswith IBD length. Colored nodes indicate imputed carriers of variablenumber tandem repeats (VNTRs) at FRAM; color intensity scales withimputed dosage.

FIG. 43—SFARI pedigrees containing variable number tandem repeats atFRAM. Read counts (non-reference/total) are reported for eachindividual, and autistic probands are indicated in orange.

FIG. 44—Identity-by-descent graph at MPL locus (chr1:43.8 Mb) onindividuals with somatic SVs on chr1 extending to the p-telomere. Squarenodes in the IBD graph correspond to males and circles to females. Nodesize is proportional to clonal cell fraction and edge weight increaseswith IBD length. Colored nodes indicate imputed carriers of SNPsassociated with somatic chr1p CNN-LOH (FIG. 4); color intensity scaleswith imputed dosage.

FIGS. 45A-45B—Germline CNVs at 15q26.3. (FIG. 45A) Read depth profileplot of SFARI samples in the terminal 700kb of chr15q. Three individualsin one family carry a ˜70kb deletion at 15q26.3, and a fourth carriesthe same deletion along with a ˜290kb duplication (probably on the samehaplotype based on population frequencies of these events; see FIG. 38).These four individuals (highlighted in blue) segregate with thers182643535 T allele in SFARI. None exhibited evidence of 15q mosaicism.(FIG. 45B) Zoomed-in read depth profile plot, with deletion-onlyindividuals highlighted in blue and the del+dup individual highlightedin green. Breakpoint analysis indicates that the ˜70kb deletion spanschr15:102151467-102222161 and contains a 1139 bp mid-segment(chr15:102164897-102166035) that is retained in inverted orientation.The ˜290kb duplication spans chr15:102026997-102314016.

FIG. 46—Somatic SVs and germline CNVs at 15q26.3. Using identifiedbreakpoints of the germline ˜70kb deletion and ˜290kb duplication (FIG.37), we computed mean genotyping intensity (LRR) in UK Biobank sampleswithin the ˜70kb deletion region (24 probes) and within the flanking˜220kb region (97 probes). Individuals are plotted by flanking 220kbmean LRR vs. 70kb mean LRR and colored by mosaic status for somatic 15qSVs. UK Biobank samples carrying the 70kb deletion, 290kb duplication,and del+dup are all easily identifiable in distinct clusters. The plotalso appears to contain clusters with higher copy number. The simple70kb deletion is the only constitutional CNV that predisposes to somaticSVs. Most somatic SVs are CNN-LOH events that make cells homozygous forthe 70kb deletion; two individuals have somatic loss of the homologous(normal) chromosome, making cells hemizygous for the 70kb deletion.

FIG. 47—Phased BAF plots of chromosomes with multiple CNN-LOH subclones.All of the above plots exhibit step functions of increasing |ΔBAF|toward a telomere, which is the hallmark of multiple clonal cellpopulations containing distinct CNN-LOH events that affect differentspans of a chromosomal arm (all extending to the telomere). Distinct|ΔBAF| values (called using an HMM) are indicated with different colors.Flips in the sign of phased BAF correspond to phase switch errors, whichare much more frequent in regions with very high |ΔBAF|(e.g., individual5466353 with chr14q CNN-LOH events) because extreme shifts in genotypingintensities result in poor genotyping quality.

FIG. 48—Manhattan plot of cis associations with biased female chrX loss.The gaps in the plot correspond to the chrX centromere and X-transposedregion (XTR); we masked the latter from our analyses, following Laurieet al. [2].

FIG. 49—CLL prediction accuracy: precision-recall curves. Theprecision-recall curves are for the same cross-validation benchmarks forwhich ROC curves were reported in FIG. 5b,c . The benchmark on the rightincludes only individuals with lymphocyte counts in the normal range(1×109/L to 3.5×109/L), whereas the benchmark on the left relaxes thisrestriction (and also uses additional mosaic event variables forprediction (11q-, 14q-, 22q-, and total number of autosomal events). Inboth benchmarks, individuals with previous cancer diagnoses or CLLdiagnoses within 1 year of assessment are excluded; however, someindividuals with very high lymphocyte counts pass this filter (andprobably already had CLL at assessment despite being undiagnosed for >1year), hence the difference in apparent prediction between the twobenchmarks.

FIG. 50.—Somatic SVs detected in CLL cases sorted by lymphocyte count.Individuals are stratified by cancer status at DNA collection (no/anyprevious diagnosis), and SVs (loss=red, CNN-LOH=green, gain=blue,unknown=grey) are plotted per chromosome using colored rectangles (withheight increasing with BAF deviation).

FIG. 51—Hidden Markov model for detecting somatic SVs. Somatic SVs,which alter the balance of maternal vs. paternal chromosome content in acell population, cause deviations in allelic balance (|ΔBAF|) atheterozygous sites. In computationally phased genotyping intensity data,these deviations manifest as stretches of signed deviations with thesame absolute value (θ) but with sign flips at phase switch errors. Athree-state Hidden Markov model with the single parameter θ capturesthis behavior and enables computation of a likelihood ratio teststatistic.

FIGS. 52A-52D—Exclusion of possible constitutional duplications. Eventsof length >10 Mb with LRR>0.35 or LRR>0.2 and |ΔBAF|>0.16 were filtered,and then events of length <10 Mb with LRR>0.2 or LRR>0.1 and |ΔBAF|>0.1were further filtered. More stringent filtering was applied to shorterevents because (i) most constitutional duplications are short and (ii)shorter events have noisier LRR and |ΔBAF| estimates.

The figures herein are for illustrative purposes only and are notnecessarily drawn to scale.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS General Definitions

Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used hereinhave the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill inthe art to which this disclosure pertains. Definitions of common termsand techniques in molecular biology may be found in Molecular Cloning: ALaboratory Manual, 2^(nd) edition (1989) (Sambrook, Fritsch, andManiatis); Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 4th edition (2012)(Green and Sambrook); Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (1987) (F.M. Ausubel et al. eds.); the series Methods in Enzymology (AcademicPress, Inc.): PCR 2: A Practical Approach (1995) (M. J. MacPherson, B.D. Hames, and G. R. Taylor eds.): Antibodies, A Laboraotry Manual (1988)(Harlow and Lane, eds.): Antibodies A Laboraotry Manual, 2nd edition2013 (E. A. Greenfield ed.); Animal Cell Culture (1987) (R. I. Freshney,ed.); Benjamin Lewin, Genes IX, published by Jones and Bartlet, 2008(ISBN 0763752223); Kendrew et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of MolecularBiology, published by Blackwell Science Ltd., 1994 (ISBN 0632021829);Robert A. Meyers (ed.), Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: aComprehensive Desk Reference, published by VCH Publishers, Inc., 1995(ISBN 9780471185710); Singleton et al., Dictionary of Microbiology andMolecular Biology 2nd ed., J. Wiley & Sons (New York, N.Y. 1994), March,Advanced Organic Chemistry Reactions, Mechanisms and Structure 4th ed.,John Wiley & Sons (New York, N.Y. 1992); and Marten H. Hofker and Janvan Deursen, Transgenic Mouse Methods and Protocols, 2^(nd) edition(2011).

As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an”, and “the” include bothsingular and plural referents unless the context clearly dictatesotherwise.

The term “optional” or “optionally” means that the subsequent describedevent, circumstance or substituent may or may not occur, and that thedescription includes instances where the event or circumstance occursand instances where it does not.

The recitation of numerical ranges by endpoints includes all numbers andfractions subsumed within the respective ranges, as well as the recitedendpoints.

The terms “about” or “approximately” as used herein when referring to ameasurable value such as a parameter, an amount, a temporal duration,and the like, are meant to encompass variations of and from thespecified value, such as variations of +/−10% or less, +/−5% or less,+/−1% or less, and +/−0.1% or less of and from the specified value,insofar such variations are appropriate to perform in the disclosedinvention. It is to be understood that the value to which the modifier“about” or “approximately” refers is itself also specifically, andpreferably, disclosed.

Reference throughout this specification to “one embodiment”, “anembodiment,” “an example embodiment,” means that a particular feature,structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodimentis included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus,appearances of the phrases “in one embodiment,” “in an embodiment,” or“an example embodiment” in various places throughout this specificationare not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, but may.Furthermore, the particular features, structures or characteristics maybe combined in any suitable manner, as would be apparent to a personskilled in the art from this disclosure, in one or more embodiments.Furthermore, while some embodiments described herein include some butnot other features included in other embodiments, combinations offeatures of different embodiments are meant to be within the scope ofthe invention. For example, in the appended claims, any of the claimedembodiments can be used in any combination.

All publications, published patent documents, and patent applicationscited herein are hereby incorporated by reference to the same extent asthough each individual publication, published patent document, or patentapplication was specifically and individually indicated as beingincorporated by reference. The enhanced sensitivity of the methodsdisclosed herein

Overview

Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and computerprogram products that utilize long-range phase information to detectsubtle chromosome imbalances in genotype data. Clonal expansions resultfrom mutation followed by selective proliferation, and the embodimentsdisclosed herein may be used to somatic structural variant events (SVs)predictive or diagnostic of cancer and other diseases. The enhancedsensitivity of the methods disclosed herein may be used to detect thepresence of a disease or a susceptibility disease. Likewise theembodiments disclosed herein may be used to track disease progressionand or therapeutic treatment to verify clearance of disease, for exampleelimination of clones comprising driver mutations of a particulardisease state such as cancer.

The computer implemented methods disclosed herein may be furthercombined in kits are systems to provide useful diagnostics. For example,a software component may be packaged with reagents for samplegenotyping, or incorporated into a genotyping system that processessamples to determine allelic frequencies including various sequencingand probe based approaches.

In some embodiments, the methods disclosed herein may be used foranalyzing sample with a small amount of nucleic acid such as cell freenucleic acids or nucleic acids from a single or a small number of cells.For example, the methods may be used for analyzing fetal nucleic acid inthe blood of a pregnant female, circulating tumor DNA, or nucleic acidsfrom a single cell or multiple cells obtained from an embryo.

Example System Architectures

FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting a system for detecting somaticstructural variants from genotyping data, in accordance with certainexample embodiments. As depicted in FIG. 1, the system 100 includesnetwork devices 110 and 120 that are configured to communicate with oneanother via one or more networks 105. In some embodiments, a userassociated with device 120 must install a user interface application 111and/or make a feature selection to obtain the benefit of the techniquesdescribed herein.

Each network 105 includes a wired or wireless telecommunication means bywhich network devices (including devices 110 and 120) can exchange data.For example, each network 105 can include a local area network (“LAN”),a wide area network (“WAN”), an intranet, and Internet, a mobiletelephone network, or any combination thereof. Throughout the discussionof example embodiments, it should be understood that the terms “data”and “information” are used interchangeably herein to refer to text,images, audio, video, or any other form of information that can exist ina computer-based environment.

Each network device 110 and 120 includes a device having a communicationmodule capable of transmitting and receiving data over the network 105.For example, each network device 110 and 120 can include a server,desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet computer, smart phone,handheld computer, personal digital assistant (“PDA”), or any otherwired or wireless, processor-driven device. In the example embodimentdepicted in FIG. 1, the network devices 110 and 120 are operated byend-users and backend server operators/administrators (not depicted). Auser can use the application 121, such as a web browser application or astand-alone application to view, upload, download, or otherwise accessfiles or web pages via a distributed network 105.

It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exampleand other means of establishing a communication link between thecomputers and devices can be used. Moreover, those having ordinary skillin the art and having the benefit of the present disclosure willappreciate that the devices 110 and 120 illustrated in FIG. 1 can haveany of several other suitable computer system configurations. Forexample, a user device 120 embodied as a mobile phone or handheldcomputer many not include all components described above.

In certain example embodiments, the network computing devices and anyother computing machines associated with the embodiments presentedherein may be any type of computing machine such as, but not limited to,those discussed in more detail with respect to FIG. 1. Furthermore, anycomponents associated with any of these computing machines, such ascomponents described herein or any other components (scripts, webcontent, software, firmware, or hardware) associated with the technologypresented herein may be any of the components discussed in more detailwith respect to FIG. 1. The computing machine discussed herein maycommunicate with one another as well as other computer machines orcommunication systems over one or more networks, such as network 105.The network 105 may include any type of data or communication network,including any of the network technology discussed with respect to FIG.2.

Example Processes

The example methods illustrated in FIG. 2 are described hereinafter withrespect to the components of the example operating environment 100. Theexample method of FIG. 2 may also be performed with other systems and inother environments.

FIG. 2 is a block flow diagram depicting a method 200 to detect somaticstructural variants (SVs), in accordance with certain exampleembodiments.

Method 200 begins at block 205, where the data input module 111 receivesgenotyping data from one or more samples for analysis. In certainexample embodiments, the data input module 111 will determine a measureof total and relative allelic intensities from the input genotype data.Genotyping data may be acquired using standard techniques in the art,with genotyping data contained in the UK Biobank [23] beingrepresentative of a type of genotyping data that may be used with theembodiments disclosed herein. In certain example embodiments,determining total and relative allelic intensities from genotyping datawill comprise converting genotype intensity data (e.g., A and B alleleprobe set intensities, A_(int) and B_(int).) In certain exampleembodiments, this may comprise converting the genotype intensity datainto log ₂R ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF) values.

For certain example embodiments, the data input module 111 is configuredto convert the genotype intensity data into LRR and BAF valuescomprises, for each genotyping batch, for each cluster of calledgenotypes (AA, AB, BB), computing a cluster median in (X, Y)=(contrast,size)−space [67]:

X=log ₂ A _(int)−log ₂ B _(int)

Y=(log ₂ A _(int)+log ₂ B _(int))/2.

Batch-level cluster centers are computed to account for possible batcheffects. If a cluster contains fewer than 10 calls, the median intensityis set to missing. Next, for each individual, affine-normalized andGC-correct (X, Y) transformed intensities. This procedure corrects forsystematic variation in probe intensities across SNPs for a particularindividual (e.g. broadly elevated or reduced intensity levels), as wellas for “GC-wave” artifacts [52]. In certain example embodiments a pairof multi-variate linear regressions

$\begin{matrix}{{X_{m,{{ex}\; p}} = {\alpha + {X_{m}\beta_{X}} + {Y_{m}\beta_{Y}} + {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{9}{\sum\limits_{p = 1}^{2}\left\lbrack {{\left( f_{m,k}^{GC} \right)^{p} \cdot \beta_{k,p}^{GC}} + {\left( f_{m,k}^{CpG} \right)^{p} \cdot \beta_{k,p}^{CpG}}} \right\rbrack}}}}{{Y_{m,{{ex}\; p}} = {\gamma + {X_{m}\delta_{X}} + {Y_{m}\delta_{Y}} + {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{9}{\sum\limits_{p = 1}^{2}\left\lbrack {{\left( f_{m,k}^{GC} \right)^{p} \cdot \delta_{k,p}^{GC}} + {\left( f_{m,k}^{CpG} \right)^{p} \cdot \delta_{k,p}^{CpG}}} \right\rbrack}}}},}} & {(3),(4)}\end{matrix}$

wherein m indexes SNPs, (X_(m), Y_(m)) are intensity values in(contrast, size)-space for the current individual/sample at SNP m,(X_(m, exp), Y_(m, exp)) is the cluster center (computed above)corresponding to the individual's called genotype at SNP m, and {f_(m,k)^(GC), f_(m,k) ^(CpG)}_(k=1) ⁹ are proportions of GC and CpG content in9 windows of 50, 100, 500, 1k, 10k, 50k, 100k, and 250k, and 1M bpcentered around SNP m. The GC content may be determined using bedtools[68] on the human reference (hg19), and CpG content may be determinedusing the EpiGRAPH CpG annotation [69]. Equations (3) and (4) withoutthe GC and CpG terms amount to an affline transformation of eachindividual's observed intensity values (X_(m), Y_(m)) to best match the“expected” intensity values (X_(m,exp), Y_(m,exp)) based on eachindividual's called genotype. The GC and CpG terms constitute apolynomial (quadratic) model for artefactual variation due to effects oflocal GC and CpG content on measured probe intensities [52]. In certainexample embodiments, a least-squares regression may be performed onequations (3) and (4) (ignoring SNPS at which the individual's genotypewas uncalled or the relevant cluster center was set to missing) toobtain corrected (X, Y) values, defined as the regression predictions(i.e., (X_(m,exp), Y_(m,exp)) minus the least-squares residuals).

Next, for each genotyping batch, for each cluster of called genotypes(AA, AB, BB), the data input module 111 determines means of corrected(X, Y) values. In this step cluster centers may be recomputed on theaffline-normalized and GC-corrected (X, Y) values (taking means ratherthan medians but otherwise following the first step).

Then, for each genotype, the data input module 111 transforms corrected(X, Y) values to LRR and BAF values. The (X, Y) values may betransformed using a polar-like transformation followed by linearinterpolation similar to that disclosed in [51]; Set

$\begin{matrix}{\theta = {\frac{2}{\pi} \cdot {\arctan \left( 2^{X_{AB} - X} \right)}}} & (5) \\{{{\log_{2}R} = Y},} & (6)\end{matrix}$

where in the first equation X_(AB) denotes the mean corrected X=log₂A_(int)/B_(int) value for genotypes called as hets at the current SNP.In certain example embodiments, SNPs for which X_(AB) is missing may befiltered out. The cluster centers may then be transformed in the samemanner to obtain (θ_(AA), log ₂ R_(AA)), (θ_(AB), log ₂ R_(AB)) and(θ_(BB), log ₂ R_(BB)). Linear interpolation between cluster centers maythen be performed [51] in (θ, log ₂ R)-space to estimate BAF andexpected log ₂R for each genotype, from which LRR values may be obtainedas log ₂R log ₂R_(exp). If a cluster center is missing, it may be set tothe reflection of the opposite cluster center across the vertical lineθ=θ_(AB).

In certain example embodiments, the data input module 111 may determinea s.d. (BAF) for each sample within each autosome to filter outanomalous BAF and LRR values. In certain example embodiments chromosomeswith mean LRR >3.0 (possible non-mosaic trisomy) or mean LRR <−0.5(possible non-mosaic monosomy) may be filtered out.

In certain example embodiments, data input module 111 may be configuredto mask certain genomic regions. For example, genotype measurements inthe HLA region on chromosome 6 (28,477,797-33,338,354, build 37) and theX translocation region (XTR) on chromosome X (88,575,629-92,308,067) maybe masked [2].

The method then proceeds to block 210, wherein the somatic SV module 112identifies and masks inherited segmental duplications (i.e.constitutional duplications) in the genotyping data. Constitutionalduplications can create false positive detections of mosaic SVs becausethey have the same effect on BAF and LRR as a somatic gain event at 100%cell fraction. Constitutional deletions also behave like somatic lossevents at 100% cell fraction.

Constitutional duplications are relatively easy to filter as they arecharacteristically short (typically <1 Mb) and produce extreme shifts ingenotyping intensities; heterozygous sites have AAB or ABB genotypeswith |ΔBAF)˜0.17, and all sites have triploid total copy number withLRR-0.35 (FIG. 2 and FIG. 44). To call and mask such regions, the SVmodule 112 may model observed phased BAF deviations (pBAF) across achromosome using a 25-state hidden Markov model (HMM). In certainexample embodiments, the SV module 112 models observed phased BAFdeviations with states corresponding to pBAF values in [−0.24, +0.24] atintervals of 0.02. Each state is assumed to have emitted a normallydistributed observed pBAF with mean equal to the state value andstandard deviation equal to the empirical s.d.(BAF) at each site(measured across all individuals within a genotyping batch), andz-scores may be capped at 4 to reduce outlier influence. The SV module112 may be configured to allow transitions between the 0 state and eachnonzero state with probability 0.003 (modeling event boundaries) andbetween each nonzero state and its negative with probability 0.001(modeling phase switch errors). At the telomeres, a probability of 0.01may be assigned to starting/ending in each nonzero state (to favor callsthat end at the telomeres).

The SV module 112 may select regions to mask by computing the Viterbi(maximum likelihood) path through the above HMM and examining contiguousregions of nonzero states. In certain example embodiments, the SV module11 may mask regions of <2 Mb with |ΔBAF|>0.1 and LRR>0.1, which arelikely constitutional duplications, and further mask gaps (of <2 Mb)between nearby regions of this form (assuming that the 1 Mb flanks ofthe merged region had no apparent mosaicism, i.e., |ΔBAF|<0.05).

The method then proceeds to block 215, where the SV module 112 detectsputative somatic SV events. The above approach of performing Viterbidecoding on a many-state hidden Markov model works well for findingconstitutional duplications, but to define a formal, well-calibratedstatistical test sensitive to somatic SVs at low cell fractions, adifferent approach is required. The single 25-state HMM described abovemay be replaced with a family of 3-state HMMs parameterized by a singleparameter θ representing mean |ΔBAF| within a mosaic event (i.e., thestates of the HMM are {−0, 0, +0}; FIG. 43). The key advantages of thisapproach are that (i) it naturally produces a likelihood ratio teststatistic for testing θ=? 0 (described in the following section); and(ii) the derived test statistic integrates over uncertainty in phaseswitches and SV boundaries (unlike maximum likelihood estimation).

Aside from the reduction in the number of states, the 3-state HMM usedfor event detection differs from the 25-state HMM described above onlyin values of a few constants. The ±θ→0 “stop” transition probability maybe reduced to 3×10-4 in autosomes and 1×10−4 in chromosome X, reflectingthe fact that most somatic events of interest span tens of megabases.The 0→±θ “start” transition probability may be reduced to 0.004 (resp.0.08) times the stop probability in autosomes (resp. chromosome X). (Theasymmetry in start vs. stop probabilities reflects the fact that the HMMshould not expect to spend equal amounts of time in the mosaic vs.non-mosaic states; most portions of most chromosomes are expected to benon-mosaic.) The −0↔+0 switch error probability may be kept at 0.001,roughly reflecting our estimated rate of large-scale phase switches [24,26]. A probabilistic penalty does not have to be assessed tostarting/ending in nonzero states except in acrocentric chromosomes, forwhich the probability of starting in a nonzero state (at the centromere,given that we had no p-arm genotypes) was reduced by a factor of 0.2. Asabove, it is assumed each state emitted a normally distributed observedpBAF. In certain example embodiments, z-scores may be capped at 2 tofurther reduce outlier influence.

A potential criticism of this 3-state HMM is that it does not properlymodel chromosomes with multiple SVs of differing |ΔBAF|. However, theprimary purpose of this model is event discovery (particularly for SVsat low cell fractions); after chromosomes containing SV events areidentified, additional post-processing (described below) is performed onthe putative set to pick up complex SVs. Additionally, |ΔBAF| may bere-estimated within SV boundaries after making event calls.

The method then proceed to block 220, where the SV module 112 detects afinal set of somatic SV events. In certain example embodiments, the SVmodule 112 detects a final set of somatic SV events by applying alikelihood ratio test to values determined in detecting the putative SVevents above. In certain example embodiments, for a given sequence ofphased BAF deviations (denoted x) on a chromosome, the family of HMMsparameterized by θ gives rise to a likelihood ratio test statistic asfollows. For a given θ, the likelihood L(θ|x) may be determined by theSV module 112 as the total probability of observing x under the HMM withnonzero states ±θ. (This computation can be performed efficiently usingdynamic programming.) The likelihood ratio for

$\theta \overset{?}{=}0$

is then given by

$\begin{matrix}{{{\Lambda (x)} = \frac{L\left( 0 \middle| x \right)}{\sup_{\theta}\left\{ {L\left( \theta \middle| x \right)} \right\}}},} & (7)\end{matrix}$

where the numerator is the likelihood under the model in which allstates collapse to 0 (i.e., no SV is present) and the denominator is thelikelihood under the best choice of θ.

Producing a hypothesis test for

$\theta \overset{?}{=}0$

takes one more step. While asymptotic theory can often be invoked toassert that −2 log Λ is approximately χ2 distributed under the nullhypothesis, there are two issues here. Most importantly, the hiddenMarkov model is imperfect, and in particular, different choices ofprobability constants within the model can substantially change theabsolute magnitude of the test statistic. Second, our null hypothesisθ=0 is at the boundary of the parameter space.

For these reasons, the SV module 112 may be configured to estimate anempirical null distribution for the test statistic −2 log Λ rather thanrelying on theory. In certain example embodiments, null distribution isapproximated simply by taking observed pBAF sequences and randomizingphase at each heterozygous site (keeping |ΔBAF| fixed). In one exampleembodiment, 5 independent randomizations were performed per individualsample, computed −2 log Λ for each replicate, and used the resultingdistribution of null test statistics to determine the cutoff value thatwould achieve a false discovery rate of 0.05 in light of the teststatistics observed on real data. This calibration may be performedindependently for each autosome and chromosome X, yielding criticalvalues from 1.41-3.87.

The method then proceeds to block 225, where the SV module 112 mayidentify somatic SV event chromosomal locations (i.e. boundaries). Themethod thus far can detect whether or not a somatic SV occurredsomewhere on a chromosome in order to described the observed BAFdeviations. However, if so (i.e., if the null hypothesis is rejected),the method above makes no indication of where on the chromosome the SVis located. To estimate SV boundaries, the SV module 112, may take 5samples from the posterior of the HMM using the likelihood-maximizingchoice of θ. The SV module 112 may then identify a boundary of an SVusing the consensus of the 5 samples.

The method then proceeds to block 230, wherein the SV modules identifiessomatic SV event copy number. LRR data may be incorporated to determinecopy number. As previously described [1,2,8], the mean LRR in called SVseither increases or decreases linearly with estimated BAF deviation (forlosses and gains) or was near zero (for CNN-LOHs) (FIG. 2 and FIG. 27).These trend lines allow the SV module 112 to estimate the expectedLRR/|ΔBAF| slopes corresponding to gains and losses (approximately 2.16and −1.89, respectively). For a particular event with estimate BAFdeviation/|ΔBAF| and mean LRR and standard error of LRR {circumflex over(σ)}, the SV module 112 can be configured to compute the relativeprobabilities that the event was a loss, CNN-LOH, or gain.

In certain example embodiments, the above approach may be improved byleveraging chromosome-specific frequencies of loss, CNN-LOH, and gain.Specifically, some chromosomes contained many of one type of event andvery few of another (FIG. 1), and this information may be helpful forcalling events with uncertain copy number (i.e., events with low |ΔBAF|and therefore little separation between the expected mean LRRscorresponding to loss, CNN-LOH, or gain). The SV module 112 may splitthe LRR vs. |ΔBAF| space into three zones bisecting theloss/CNN-LOH/gain trend lines: letting s=LRR/|ΔBAF|, requiring thatevents with s<−0.94 be called either as loss or unknown, events with−0.94≤s<1.08 be called either as CNN-LOH or unknown, and events with1.08≤s be called either as gain or unknown. It may be further requiredthat in order to call an event within one of these zones, its mean LRRμ{circumflex over ( )} needed to be either (i) at least twice as closeto its expectation according to the closest trend line vs. the nextclosest; or (ii) within two standard errors σ{circumflex over ( )} ofits expectation. With these rules in place, the SV module 112 may beconfigured to set preliminary calls to each event, calling copy numberfor an event if the requirements above were satisfied and if the mostlikely call was at least 20 times more likely than the next-most likely(based on μ{circumflex over ( )} and σ{circumflex over ( )} and thenormal model described in the previous paragraph). The SV module 112 maythen re-call all events by performing the same procedure butincorporating a prior on call probabilities: for a given event, forexample by putting a prior on its copy number derived from thepreliminary calls made for up to 20 events with similar boundaries(differing by <10 Mb and <10% of chromosome length), adding apseudo-count of 0.5 to prevent copy numbers from being assigned zeroprobability.

One special case may require separate handling: isochromosomes, whichinvolve simultaneous loss of one chromosomal arm and gain of the other(most notably i(17q); FIG. 20). Therefore the SV module 112 may beconfigured to include a separate check for whole-chromosome eventsexamining whether LRR was significantly different for the p vs. q arms,and if so, the SV module 112 may split the event at the centromere. TheSV module 112 may also perform manual review more generally to searchfor events with multiple |ΔBAF| and/or LRR levels within a call, but didnot find such events beyond subclonal CNN-LOHs (described below).

The method then proceeds to block 235, where the SV module 112 maydetect multiple sub-clonal SV events. The framework described above isaimed at identifying and calling sporadic SVs arising in a populationcohort for which most individuals with detectable clonality have asingle simple event (a single clonal loss, CNN-LOH, or gain) atlow-to-modest cell fraction. However, for a small subset of individuals(mostly with prevalent or incident cancer diagnoses), multiple eventsmay be detected, giving rise to the possibility that some samples mightcarry overlapping or contiguous events that require more carefultreatment.

Accordingly, the SV module 112 may execute a post-processing step inwhich detected events are re-analyzed using Viterbi decoding on a51-state HMM with |ΔBAF| levels ranging from 0.01 to 0.25 inmultiplicative increments. In this HMM, in addition to start/stoptransitions between the 0 state and nonzero states (with probability10-4) and switch error transitions between each state and its negative(with probability 0.001), the SV module 112 may also introduce|ΔBAF|-shift transitions between different nonzero states (withprobability 10-7). At the telomeres, the SV module 112 may assign aprobability of 0.01 to starting/ending in each nonzero state. All callsfor which the posterior decoding resulted in more than one |ΔBAF| statewere examined, and it was observed that in nearly all of these cases,the event in question had originally been called as a CNN-LOH butexhibited a step function of increasing BAF deviations toward thetelomere (consistent with multiple subclonal CNN-LOH events coveringvarying segments of a chromosome arm). All such events are described inFIGS. 39A-39B.

The method then terminates.

FIG. 53 shows an exemplary method (300) for detecting somatic structuralvariants (SV). Method 300 may be a computer-implemented method, e.g.,can be performed using one or more computing devices. Step 310 maycomprise determining the total and relative allelic intensities for oneor more samples. The determination may comprise converting genotypeintensity data into log R₂ ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF)values. Step 320 may comprise masking constitutional segmentalduplications in each sample of the one or more samples. The masking maycomprise modeling observed phased BAF deviations (pBAF). In certainexamples, modeling the observed pBAFs may be performed by modelingacross individual chromosomes using a 25-state hidden Markov model (HMM)with states corresponding to pBAF values. Step 330 may compriseidentifying a putative set of somatic SV events for each sample in theone or more samples. In certain examples, the putative set of somatic SVevents may be identified using a 3-state HMM. The 3-state HMM may beparameterized by a single parameter representing mean |ΔBAF| within agiven somatic SV event. Step 340 may comprise defining one or moresomatic SV events for each sample of the one or more samples. In someembodiments, steps 310-340 may be performed in any order, e.g., in theorder shown by the arrows in FIG. 53. In some cases, steps 310-340 maybe performed as a single step.

In some embodiments, method 300 may further comprise locating achromosomal location of each identified somatic SV event for each samplein the one or more samples. The chromosomal location of each identifiedsomatic SV event may be located by taking 5 samples from the posteriorof the 3-state HMM and determining the boundaries of each SV event basedon a consensus of the 5 samples.

In some embodiments, method 300 may further comprise determining a copynumber of each identified somatic SV event for reach sample in the oneor more samples. The copy number of each identified somatic SV event maybe determined by determining a relative probability that the event was aloss, CNN-LOH, or gain based at least in part on the LRR and |ΔBAF|deviation.

In some embodiments, method 300 may further comprise detecting multiplesub-clonal events for each identified somatic SV event. The multiplesub-clonal events may be detected by re-analyzing each identifiedsomatic SV using Viterbi decoding on a 51-state HMM with |ΔBAF| levelsranging from 0.01 to 0.25 in multiplicative increments.

In some embodiments, method 300 may further comprise selecting regionsto mask, which comprises computing the Viterbi path through the HMM andexamining contiguous regions of nonzero states. In certain embodiments,method 300 may further comprise detecting a disease or susceptibility toa disease disclosed herein, e.g., based on detection of the one or moresomatic SV events.

Also disclosed herein includes a computer program product comprising anon-transitory computer-executable storage device havingcomputer-readable program instructions embodied thereon that whenexecuted by a computer cause the computer to for performing the methodsdisclosed herein. In some examples, the computer-executable programinstructions may comprise computer-executable program instructions toperform one or more steps of method 300.

Further disclose herein includes a system to detect somatic SV events.In certain examples, the system may comprise a storage device and aprocessor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein theprocessor executes application code instructions that are stored in thestorage device and that cause the system to perform one or more steps ofmethod 300.

Disclosed herein also includes a kit for performing the methods herein.The kit may comprise reagents (e.g., for determining allelicfrequencies), a computer program product, a system, or a combinationthereof.

Other Example Embodiments

FIG. 3 depicts a computing machine 2000 and a module 2050 in accordancewith certain example embodiments. The computing machine 2000 maycorrespond to any of the various computers, servers, mobile devices,embedded systems, or computing systems presented herein. The module 2050may comprise one or more hardware or software elements configured tofacilitate the computing machine 2000 in performing the various methodsand processing functions presented herein. The computing machine 2000may include various internal or attached components such as a processor2010, system bus 2020, system memory 2030, storage media 2040,input/output interface 2060, and a network interface 2070 forcommunicating with a network 2080.

The computing machine 2000 may be implemented as a conventional computersystem, an embedded controller, a laptop, a server, a mobile device, asmartphone, a set-top box, a kiosk, a router or other network node, avehicular information system, one more processors associated with atelevision, a customized machine, any other hardware platform, or anycombination or multiplicity thereof. The computing machine 2000 may be adistributed system configured to function using multiple computingmachines interconnected via a data network or bus system.

The processor 2010 may be configured to execute code or instructions toperform the operations and functionality described herein, managerequest flow and address mappings, and to perform calculations andgenerate commands. The processor 2010 may be configured to monitor andcontrol the operation of the components in the computing machine 2000.The processor 2010 may be a general purpose processor, a processor core,a multiprocessor, a reconfigurable processor, a microcontroller, adigital signal processor (“DSP”), an application specific integratedcircuit (“ASIC”), a graphics processing unit (“GPU”), a fieldprogrammable gate array (“FPGA”), a programmable logic device (“PLD”), acontroller, a state machine, gated logic, discrete hardware components,any other processing unit, or any combination or multiplicity thereof.The processor 2010 may be a single processing unit, multiple processingunits, a single processing core, multiple processing cores, specialpurpose processing cores, co-processors, or any combination thereof.According to certain embodiments, the processor 2010 along with othercomponents of the computing machine 2000 may be a virtualized computingmachine executing within one or more other computing machines.

The system memory 2030 may include non-volatile memories such asread-only memory (“ROM”), programmable read-only memory (“PROM”),erasable programmable read-only memory (“EPROM”), flash memory, or anyother device capable of storing program instructions or data with orwithout applied power. The system memory 2030 may also include volatilememories such as random access memory (“RAM”), static random accessmemory (“SRAM”), dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”), and synchronousdynamic random access memory (“SDRAM”). Other types of RAM also may beused to implement the system memory 2030. The system memory 2030 may beimplemented using a single memory module or multiple memory modules.While the system memory 2030 is depicted as being part of the computingmachine 2000, one skilled in the art will recognize that the systemmemory 2030 may be separate from the computing machine 2000 withoutdeparting from the scope of the subject technology. It should also beappreciated that the system memory 2030 may include, or operate inconjunction with, a non-volatile storage device such as the storagemedia 2040.

The storage media 2040 may include a hard disk, a floppy disk, a compactdisc read only memory (“CD-ROM”), a digital versatile disc (“DVD”), aBlu-ray disc, a magnetic tape, a flash memory, other non-volatile memorydevice, a solid state drive (“SSD”), any magnetic storage device, anyoptical storage device, any electrical storage device, any semiconductorstorage device, any physical-based storage device, any other datastorage device, or any combination or multiplicity thereof. The storagemedia 2040 may store one or more operating systems, application programsand program modules such as module 2050, data, or any other information.The storage media 2040 may be part of, or connected to, the computingmachine 2000. The storage media 2040 may also be part of one or moreother computing machines that are in communication with the computingmachine 2000 such as servers, database servers, cloud storage, networkattached storage, and so forth.

The module 2050 may comprise one or more hardware or software elementsconfigured to facilitate the computing machine 2000 with performing thevarious methods and processing functions presented herein. The module2050 may include one or more sequences of instructions stored assoftware or firmware in association with the system memory 2030, thestorage media 2040, or both. The storage media 2040 may thereforerepresent examples of machine or computer readable media on whichinstructions or code may be stored for execution by the processor 2010.Machine or computer readable media may generally refer to any medium ormedia used to provide instructions to the processor 2010. Such machineor computer readable media associated with the module 2050 may comprisea computer software product. It should be appreciated that a computersoftware product comprising the module 2050 may also be associated withone or more processes or methods for delivering the module 2050 to thecomputing machine 2000 via the network 2080, any signal-bearing medium,or any other communication or delivery technology. The module 2050 mayalso comprise hardware circuits or information for configuring hardwarecircuits such as microcode or configuration information for an FPGA orother PLD.

The input/output (“I/O”) interface 2060 may be configured to couple toone or more external devices, to receive data from the one or moreexternal devices, and to send data to the one or more external devices.Such external devices along with the various internal devices may alsobe known as peripheral devices. The I/O interface 2060 may include bothelectrical and physical connections for operably coupling the variousperipheral devices to the computing machine 2000 or the processor 2010.The I/O interface 2060 may be configured to communicate data, addresses,and control signals between the peripheral devices, the computingmachine 2000, or the processor 2010. The I/O interface 2060 may beconfigured to implement any standard interface, such as small computersystem interface (“SCSI”), serial-attached SCSI (“SAS”), fiber channel,peripheral component interconnect (“PCP”), PCI express (PCIe), serialbus, parallel bus, advanced technology attached (“ATA”), serial ATA(“SATA”), universal serial bus (“USB”), Thunderbolt, FireWire, variousvideo buses, and the like. The I/O interface 2060 may be configured toimplement only one interface or bus technology. Alternatively, the I/Ointerface 2060 may be configured to implement multiple interfaces or bustechnologies. The I/O interface 2060 may be configured as part of, allof, or to operate in conjunction with, the system bus 2020. The I/Ointerface 2060 may include one or more buffers for bufferingtransmissions between one or more external devices, internal devices,the computing machine 2000, or the processor 2010.

The I/O interface 2060 may couple the computing machine 2000 to variousinput devices including mice, touch-screens, scanners, biometricreaders, electronic digitizers, sensors, receivers, touchpads,trackballs, cameras, microphones, keyboards, any other pointing devices,or any combinations thereof. The I/O interface 2060 may couple thecomputing machine 2000 to various output devices including videodisplays, speakers, printers, projectors, tactile feedback devices,automation control, robotic components, actuators, motors, fans,solenoids, valves, pumps, transmitters, signal emitters, lights, and soforth.

The computing machine 2000 may operate in a networked environment usinglogical connections through the network interface 2070 to one or moreother systems or computing machines across the network 2080. The network2080 may include wide area networks (WAN), local area networks (LAN),intranets, the Internet, wireless access networks, wired networks,mobile networks, telephone networks, optical networks, or combinationsthereof. The network 2080 may be packet switched, circuit switched, ofany topology, and may use any communication protocol. Communicationlinks within the network 2080 may involve various digital or an analogcommunication media such as fiber optic cables, free-space optics,waveguides, electrical conductors, wireless links, antennas,radio-frequency communications, and so forth.

The processor 2010 may be connected to the other elements of thecomputing machine 2000 or the various peripherals discussed hereinthrough the system bus 2020. It should be appreciated that the systembus 2020 may be within the processor 2010, outside the processor 2010,or both. According to some embodiments, any of the processor 2010, theother elements of the computing machine 2000, or the various peripheralsdiscussed herein may be integrated into a single device such as a systemon chip (“SOC”), system on package (“SOP”), or ASIC device.

In situations in which the systems discussed here collect personalinformation about users, or may make use of personal information, theusers may be provided with a opportunity to control whether programs orfeatures collect user information (e.g., information about a user'ssocial network, social actions or activities, profession, a user'spreferences, or a user's current location), or to control whether and/orhow to receive content from the content server that may be more relevantto the user. In addition, certain data may be treated in one or moreways before it is stored or used, so that personally identifiableinformation is removed. For example, a user's identity may be treated sothat no personally identifiable information can be determined for theuser, or a user's geographic location may be generalized where locationinformation is obtained (such as to a city, ZIP code, or state level),so that a particular location of a user cannot be determined. Thus, theuser may have control over how information is collected about the userand used by a content server.

Embodiments may comprise a computer program that embodies the functionsdescribed and illustrated herein, wherein the computer program isimplemented in a computer system that comprises instructions stored in amachine-readable medium and a processor that executes the instructions.However, it should be apparent that there could be many different waysof implementing embodiments in computer programming, and the embodimentsshould not be construed as limited to any one set of computer programinstructions. Further, a skilled programmer would be able to write sucha computer program to implement an embodiment of the disclosedembodiments based on the appended flow charts and associated descriptionin the application text. Therefore, disclosure of a particular set ofprogram code instructions is not considered necessary for an adequateunderstanding of how to make and use embodiments. Further, those skilledin the art will appreciate that one or more aspects of embodimentsdescribed herein may be performed by hardware, software, or acombination thereof, as may be embodied in one or more computingsystems. Moreover, any reference to an act being performed by a computershould not be construed as being performed by a single computer as morethan one computer may perform the act.

The example embodiments described herein can be used with computerhardware and software that perform the methods and processing functionsdescribed herein. The systems, methods, and procedures described hereincan be embodied in a programmable computer, computer-executablesoftware, or digital circuitry. The software can be stored oncomputer-readable media. For example, computer-readable media caninclude a floppy disk, RAM, ROM, hard disk, removable media, flashmemory, memory stick, optical media, magneto-optical media, CD-ROM, etc.Digital circuitry can include integrated circuits, gate arrays, buildingblock logic, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), etc.

The example systems, methods, and acts described in the embodimentspresented previously are illustrative, and, in alternative embodiments,certain acts can be performed in a different order, in parallel with oneanother, omitted entirely, and/or combined between different exampleembodiments, and/or certain additional acts can be performed, withoutdeparting from the scope and spirit of various embodiments. Accordingly,such alternative embodiments are included in the invention claimedherein.

Although specific embodiments have been described above in detail, thedescription is merely for purposes of illustration. It should beappreciated, therefore, that many aspects described above are notintended as required or essential elements unless explicitly statedotherwise. Modifications of, and equivalent components or actscorresponding to, the disclosed aspects of the example embodiments, inaddition to those described above, can be made by a person of ordinaryskill in the art, having the benefit of the present disclosure, withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of embodiments defined in thefollowing claims, the scope of which is to be accorded the broadestinterpretation so as to encompass such modifications and equivalentstructures.

Exemplary Applications

The methods herein may be used for analyzing one or more somaticstructural variants associated with certain condition such as a disease,thereby detecting the presence or susceptibility of the condition. Insome embodiments, disclosed herein include methods for detectingpresence or susceptibility of a condition in subject, the methodcomprising detecting one or more somatic structural variants in nucleicacids in a sample from the subject. The presence or absence of the oneor more somatic structural variants indicates the presence orsusceptibility of the condition.

Samples

In some embodiments, the somatic structural variants are in nucleicacids in a sample, e.g., a sample containing a small amount of nucleicacids. In certain examples, the sample may be a biological sample thatcomprises nucleic acids of interest. In some cases, the sample may be afluid, e.g., a biological fluid. Examples of biological fluids includeblood, serum, plasma, sputum, lavage fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, urine,semen, sweat, tears, saliva, and the like. As used herein, the terms“blood,” “plasma,” and “serum” expressly encompass fractions orprocessed portions thereof. Similarly, where a sample is taken from abiopsy, swab, smear, etc., the “sample” expressly encompasses aprocessed fraction or portion derived from the biopsy, swab, smear, etc.In some examples, the sample may be blood. In some examples, the samplemay be plasma. In some examples, the sample may be serum. In someexamples, the sample may be a tissue or organ, or an embryo, or aportion thereof.

The nucleic acids in the sample may comprise cell-free nucleic acids.The terms “cell-free nucleic acids” and “circulating cell-free nucleicacids” are used herein interchangeably to refer to nucleic acids orfragments thereof existing outside of cells in vivo, for example,circulating in the blood of a subject (a pregnant subject or a patient).The terms can also be used to refer to the fragments of nucleic acidsthat have been obtained from the in vivo extracellular sources andseparated, isolated or otherwise manipulated in vitro. Examples ofcell-free nucleic acids include cell-free DNA, cell-free RNA, cell-freefetal DNA, cell-free fetal RNA, circulating tumor DNA, or circulatingtumor RNA, or any combination thereof. In certain embodiments, thenucleic acids may be from a single cell or multiple cells from a tissue,organ, or embryo. In some cases, the nucleic acids may be from a singlecell or multiple cells from an embryo, e.g., used for a preimplantationgenetic screening.

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)

In some embodiments, the methods herein may be used for performingnon-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). For example, the methods maycomprise detecting and/or analyzing cell-free nucleic acids in fluidsamples from pregnant subjects. Cell-free nucleic acid screening or NIPTmay utilize bioinformatic tools and processes and next generationsequencing of fragments of DNA in maternal serum to determine theprobability of certain chromosome conditions in a pregnancy. Allindividuals have their own cell-free DNA in their blood stream. Duringpregnancy, cell-free fetal DNA from the placenta (predominantlytrophoblast cells) also enters the maternal blood stream and mixes withmaternal cell-free DNA. The DNA of the trophoblast cells usuallyreflects the chromosomal make-up of the fetus.

The methods herein may comprise screening for a disorder or condition ofthe fetus such as aneuploidy (e.g., trisomy 21, trisomy 18, and trisomy13), congenital adrenal hyperplasia, singe gene disorders (e.g., cysticfibrosis, beta thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spinal muscular atrophy,and myotonic dystrophy), hemolytic diseases, or other conditions (e.g.,fetal sex), using the cell-free nucleic acids from a maternal sample(e.g., maternal blood). In certain cases, the methods comprise screeningchromosomal alteration(s), including, but not limited to, 22q11duplication/deletions (e.g., as described in Schmid et al., Fetal DiagnTher. 2017 Nov. 8. doi: 10.1159/000484317), 1q21 duplication/deletions,16p11 duplication/deletions, 15q11 duplications/deletions, 15q13duplication/deletions, or any combination thereof.

Abnormal results typically indicate an increased risk for the specifiedcondition. In some cases, NIPT may be performed using methods describedin Norton M E et al., Cell-free DNA Analysis for Noninvasive Examinationof Trisomy, N Engl J Med, 2015; 372:1589-1597.

Cancer Diagnosis

The methods herein may be used for analyzing circulating nucleic acidsto detect and analyze circulating tumor nucleic acids (e.g., circulatingtumor DNA (ctDNA)). Circulating tumor nucleic acids may comprise nucleicacid molecules from tumor cells that are present in the blood or otherbiological tissue. Without being bound by theory, circulating tumornucleic acids may be derived from dying tumor cells, includingcirculating tumor cells (CTCs), that release their contents into theblood as they deteriorate.

The methods may comprise detecting the presence of one or more somaticstructural variants in circulating nucleic acids from a subject, therebydetecting whether circulating tumor nucleic acids are present. In thecases where the circulating tumor nucleic acids are present, the methodsmay further comprise analyzing the circulating tumor nucleic acids anddetecting tumor-associated variants in the circulating tumor nucleicacids. Results of the analysis may be used for detecting the state oftumor, such as the stage of the cancer, remission, or relapse. In somecases, detecting somatic variants in circulating tumor DNA may beperformed using methods described in Chen X et al., Manta: rapiddetection of structural variants and indels for germline and cancersequencing applications, Bioinformatics, Volume 32, Issue 8, 15 Apr.2016, Pages 1220-1222.

The methods may comprise detecting a disease based on somatic structuralvariants, e.g., one or more somatic structural variant events or mosaicchromosomal alterations. The somatic structural variants may beassociated with the disease. In some cases, the disease may be cancer.For example, the disease may be a hematological cancer. In certainexamples, the hematological cancer may be a leukemia, e.g., chroniclymphocytic leukemia. In certain examples, the disease may be solidtumor. Examples of the diseases that can be detected by the methodsherein include fibrosarcoma, myxo sarcoma, liposarcoma, chondrosarcoma,osteogenic sarcoma, chordoma, angiosarcoma, endotheliosarcoma,lymphangiosarcoma, lymphangioendothelio sarcoma, synovioma,mesothelioma, Ewing's, leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyo sarcoma,gastrointestinal system carcinomas, colon carcinoma, pancreatic cancer,breast cancer, genitourinary system carcinomas, ovarian cancer, prostatecancer, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma,sweat gland carcinoma, sebaceous gland carcinoma, papillary carcinoma,papillary adenocarcinomas, cystadenocarcinoma, medullary carcinoma,bronchogenic carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, hepatoma, bile ductcarcinoma, choriocarcinoma, seminoma, embryonal carcinoma, Wilms' tumor,cervical cancer, endocrine system carcinomas, testicular tumor, lungcarcinoma, small cell lung carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma,bladder carcinoma, epithelial carcinoma, glioma, astrocytoma,medulloblastoma, craniopharyngioma, ependymoma, pinealoma,hemangioblastoma, acoustic neuroma, oligodendroglioma, meningioma,melanoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, or combinations thereof.

The method may further comprise treating a subject based on the analysisof the somatic structural variants. Treating a subject may compriseperforming a medical procedure when the absence of somatic structuralvariant is determined for a sample. Alternatively or additionally,treating a subject may comprise performing a medical procedure when thepresence of somatic structural variant is determined for a sample. Themedical procedure may include health monitoring, retesting, furtherscreening, follow-up examinations, administration of drugs or othertypes of therapy (e.g., such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, genetherapy), surgery, lifestyle management, and any combinations thereof.In some cases, treating the subject may comprise altering one or moregenes in the subject to correct the genomic defects associated with thesomatic structural variants. For example, alteration of the one or moregenes may be performed using a gene editing technology, such asCRISPR-Cas mediated gene editing.

Various additional embodiments are described in the following numberedparagraphs:

1. A computer-implemented method to detect somatic structural variants(SV), comprising; determining, using one or more computing devices,total and relative allelic intensities for one or more samples; masking,using the one or more computing devices, constitutional segmentalduplications in each sample of the one or more samples; identifying,using the one or more computing devices, a putative set of somatic SVevents for each sample in the one or more samples; and defining, usingthe one or more computing devices, one or more somatic SV events foreach sample of the one or more samples, based at least in part onapplication of a likelihood ratio test to the putative set of somatic SVevents.2. The method of paragraph 1, further comprising locating, using the oneor more computing devices, a chromosomal location of each identifiedsomatic SV event for each sample in the one or more samples.3. The method of paragraph 1 or 2, further comprising determining, usingthe one or more computing devices, a copy number of each identifiedsomatic SV event for reach sample in the one or more samples.4. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-3, further comprisingdetecting, using the one or more computing devices, multiple sub-clonalevents for each identified somatic SV event.5. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-4, wherein determining thetotal and relative allelic frequencies comprises converting genotypeintensity data into log R₂ ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF)values.6. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-5, wherein masking theconstitutional segmental duplications comprises modeling, using the oneor more computing devices, observed phased BAF deviations (pBAF).7. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-6, wherein modeling theobserved pBAFs is performed by modeling across individual chromosomesusing a 25-state hidden Markov model (HMM) with states corresponding topBAF values.8. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-7, further comprising selectingregions to mask, which comprises computing the Viterbi path through theHMM and examining contiguous regions of nonzero states.9. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-8, wherein identifying theputative set of somatic SV events comprises use of a 3-state HMM.10. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-9, wherein the 3-state HMM isparameterized by a single parameter representing mean |ΔBAF| within agiven somatic SV event.11. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-10, wherein locating thechromosomal location of each identified somatic SV event comprisestaking 5 samples from the posterior of the 3-state HMM and determiningthe boundaries of each SV event based on a consensus of the 5 samples.12. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-11, wherein determining thecopy number of each identified somatic SV event comprises determining arelative probability that the event was a loss, CNN-LOH, or gain basedat least in part on the LRR and |ΔBAF| deviation.13. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-12, wherein detecting multiplesub-clonal events comprises re-analyzing each identified somatic SVusing Viterbi decoding on a 51-state HMM with |ΔBAF| levels ranging from0.01 to 0.25 in multiplicative increments.14. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-13, further comprisingdetecting a disease or susceptibility to a disease based on detection ofthe one or more somatic SV events.15. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-14, wherein the disease iscancer.16. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-15, wherein the cancercomprises a hematological cancer.17. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-16, wherein the hematologicalcancer is a leukemia.18. The method of any one of paragraphs 1-17, wherein the leukemia ischronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).19. The method of any one of paragraphs 14 to 16, where the detected oneor more SV events comprise one or more SV events selected from Table 13.20. A computer program product, comprising: a non-transitorycomputer-executable storage device having computer-readable programinstructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer cause thecomputer to detect somatic structural variants (SVs) from genotypingdata, the computer-executable program instructions comprising:computer-executable program instruction to determine total and relativeallelic intensities for one or more samples; computer-executable programinstructions to mask constitutional segmental duplications;computer-executable program instructions to identify a putative set ofsomatic SV events for each sample in the one or more samples; andcomputer-executable program instructions to define one or more somaticSV events for each sample of the one or more samples.21. The computer program product of paragraph 20, further comprisingcomputer-executable program instruction to locate a chromosomal locationof each identified somatic SV event for each sample in the one or moresamples.22. The computer program product of paragraph 20 or 21, furthercomprising computer-executable program instructions to determine a copynumber of each identified somatic SV event.23. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-22, furthercomprising computer-executable program instruction to detect multiplesub-clonal events for each identified somatic SV.24. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-23, whereindetermining total and relative allelic frequencies comprises convertinggenotype intensity data into log R₂ ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency(BAF) values.25. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-24, whereinidentifying the putative set of somatic SV events comprises use of a3-state HMM.26. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-25, whereinthe 3-state HMM is parameterized by a single parameter representing mean|ΔBAF| within a given somatic SV event.27. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-26, furthercomprising detecting a disease or susceptibility to a disease based ondetection of the one or more somatic SV events.28. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-27, whereinthe disease is cancer.29. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-28, whereinthe cancer is a hematological cancer.30. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-29, whereinthe hematological cancer is a leukemia.31. The computer program product of any one of paragraphs 20-31, whereinthe leukemia is chronic lymphocytic leukemia.32. A system to detect one or somatic SV events, the system comprising:a storage device; and a processor communicatively coupled to the storagedevice, wherein the processor executes application code instructionsthat are stored in the storage device and that cause the system to:determine total and relative allelic intensities for one or moresamples; mask constitutional segmental duplications; identify a putativeset of somatic SV events for each sample in the one or more samples; anddefine one or more somatic SV events for each sample of the one or moresamples.33. A kit comprising reagents for determining allelic frequencies andthe computer program product of anyone of paragraphs 20 to 31, or thesystem of paragraph 32.34. A method for detecting presence or susceptibility of a condition insubject, the method comprising detecting one or more somatic structuralvariants according to any one of paragraphs 1-19 in nucleic acids in asample from the subject, wherein presence or absence of the one or moresomatic structural variants indicates the presence or susceptibility ofthe condition.35. The method of paragraph 34, wherein the nucleic acids are cell-freenucleic acids.36. The method of paragraph 34 or 35, wherein the sample is maternalblood and the cell-free nucleic acids are fetal cell-free nucleic acids.37. The method of any one of paragraphs 34-36, wherein the cell-freenucleic acids are circulating tumor DNA.38. The method of any one of paragraphs 34-37, wherein the condition isfetal aneuploidy.39. The method of any one of paragraphs 34-38, wherein the condition iscancer.40. The method of any one of paragraphs 34-39, further comprisingperforming a medical procedure based on the detected presence orsusceptibility of the condition.

The invention is further described in the following examples, which donot limit the scope of the invention described in the claims.

EXAMPLES Example 1—Atlas of 8,342 Mosaic Structural Variants RevealsStrong Inherited Drivers of Clonal Hematopoiesis

Provided below are insights from an analysis of 8,342 somatic structuralvariants (SVs) which were ascertained in SNP-array data from 151,202 UKBiobank participants [23] using a method in accordance exampleembodiment disclosed herein that utilizes long-range haplotype phaseinformation. Health outcomes for UK Biobank participants during 5-10years after DNA sampling were also utilized.

These data review new insights into clonal expansion, includingmechanisms by which inherited variants at several loci act in cis togenerate or propel mosaicism. Several somatic SVs that strongly predictfuture hematological malignancy (OR>100) were also identified.

Somatic SVs in UK Biobank

Allele-specific SNP-array intensity data from blood genotyping of151,202 UK Biobank participants 40-70 years of age were analyzed;607,525 genotyped variants remained after quality control (Methods).Applicant achieved sensitive detection of clonally expanded SVs at cellfractions as low as 1% by making use of long-range phase informationuniquely available in UK Biobank [24-26]. The intuition behind thisapproach is that accurate phase information allows detection of subtleimbalances in the abundances of two haplotypes by combiningallele-specific information across very many SNPs (FIGS. 9A-9C, 10A-10C,11A-11C, and 12). To maximally leverage this information, Applicantdeveloped a new statistical method for phase-based SV detection (Methodsand Supplementary Note).

Applicant detected 8,342 somatic SVs (in 7,484 of the 151,202individuals analyzed) at a false discovery rate (FDR) of 0.05 (FIG. 4,FIGS. 12-34). Applicant confidently classified 71% of the detected SVsas either (i) loss, (ii) copy-number neutral loss of heterozygosity(CNN-LOH), or (iii) gain (FIG. 5A and FIG. 35). Most detected SVs hadinferred clonal cell fractions less than 5% and would have beenundetectable without long-range phasing (FIG. 36); the lowest inferredcell fractions were less than 1% (FIG. 37). The genomic distribution ofdetected SVs was broadly consistent with previous studies [1, 2, 7, 8]:most gains duplicated whole chromosomes or chromosome arms (a hallmarkof mitotic missegregation); most CNN-LOHs affected partial chromosomearms (a hallmark of mitotic recombination); and most autosomal lossesdeleted much smaller focal regions (FIG. 4 and FIGS. 12-34).

Commonly deleted regions (CDRs)<1 Mb in length are of particularinterest as they may indicate haploid sufficient tumor-suppressor genesfor which loss of one copy encourages excessive cell proliferation [2].The three most frequent focal deletions targeted 13q14, DNMT3A, andTET2, loci identified in previous studies [2, 8]; Applicant furtherobserved that most CNN-LOH events on 13q, 2p, and 4q spanned these sameCDRs (FIG. 4 and FIG. 38). Applicant detected new CDRs at ETV6, NF1, andCHEK2, which are commonly mutated in cancers, and at RPA2 and RYBP(Supplementary Note). Applicant also observed a CDR at 16p11.2overlapping a region whose deletion is a well-known inherited riskfactor for autism; Applicant did not detect this mosaic event among2,076 sequenced genomes from the Simons Simplex Collection in the SimonsFoundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) [27] (FIGS. 39A-39B).

Deletions tended to be concentrated on those chromosomes that areinfrequently duplicated (FIG. 5F and Table 2), supporting the theorythat cumulative haploinsufficiency and triplosensitivity shapes clonalevolution [28]. While a similar inverse relationship between propensityfor somatic losses versus gains was previously observed in a pan-canceranalysis of somatic SVs [29], the sets of chromosomes with more lossesversus gains are somewhat different in our analysis of blood-derivedDNA, suggesting that some drivers of clonal evolution in blood areunique to the hematopoietic system.

Some kinds of somatic mutations could in principle have synergisticgrowth-promoting effects, a hypothesis suggested by the earlierobservation that individuals tend to acquire multiple somatic SVs muchmore frequently than expected by chance [1,2,7,8] (FIG. 5C and Table 3).Our large set of detected mosaic SVs provided sufficient statisticalresolution to identify three clusters of co-occurring SVs, one of whichincluded events commonly observed together in chronic lymphocyticleukemia (CLL) [30, 31]: 13q LOH (including deletion and CNN-LOH),trisomy 12, and clonal V(D)J deletions on chromosomes 14 and 22 (FIG.5C, Table 4). These co-occurrences of events could be explained bysynergistic effects of proliferation, by shared genetic or environmentaldrivers, or by sequential progression from one event to the other.

Applicant found several interesting exceptions to a general pattern inwhich acquired mutations are most common in the elderly and in males [1,2, 7, 8] (FIG. 5D and Table 5). Loss of chromosome X in females [32] wasby far the most common event Applicant detected (FIG. 34 and Table 2),with frequency increasing dramatically with advancing age (FIG. 5D andTable 5). (Applicant did not examine loss of chromosome Y, as ourphase-based detection approach is not applicable and mLOY in UK Biobankhas been studied elsewhere [19].) Stratifying autosomal SVs by locationand copy number revealed a surprising relationship: although most gainevents were (as expected) enriched in elderly individuals and in males,CNN-LOH events tended to affect both sexes equally and to be detectablein younger people (FIG. 5e and Table 6). Three SVs were clear outliers:gains on chromosome 15 were much more frequent in elderly males [33],while deletions on 10q and

16p were much more frequent in females and exhibited no enrichment inthe elderly. (The overall age skew of somatic SV carriers also provideda convenient check of false discovery rate control; FIG. 40.)

Some acquired mutations could in principle arise or be selected withinspecific hematopoietic cell lineages. Applicant tested this hypothesisby focusing on individuals in the top 1% for indices of lymphocytes,basophils, monocytes, neutrophils, red blood cells, or platelets.Applicant identified many acquired SVs that were concentrated in one ormore of these subsets of the cohort (FIG. 5F and Table 7). Consistentwith the idea that these relationships might reflect clonal selection inspecific blood-cell compartments, mutations commonly observed in CLL[30,31] were enriched among individuals with high lymphocyte counts, andJAK2-related 9p events (commonly observed in myeloproliferativeneoplasms, MPNs) were most common among individuals with high myeloidindices. These results suggest that acquired SVs may produce subclinicalblood-composition phenotypes in individuals with no known malignancy.Influences of Inherited Variants on Nearby Somatic SVs.

To identify inherited influences on SV formation or selection, Applicantperformed chromosome-wide scans for associations between recurringsomatic SVs and germline variants on the same chromosome as each SV(Methods). This analysis revealed four loci that strongly associatedwith genomically nearby somatic SVs on 10q, 1p, 11q, and

15q, and two loci that associated with loss of chromosome X in females(Table 1, FIGS. 6A-6E, and FIGS. 7A-7C). (Applicant also replicated anearlier association of JAK2 46/1 with 9p CNN-LOH [13-16, 18]; FIG. 41.)To elucidate causal influences of inherited variation at these loci,Applicant fine-mapped these associations using whole-genome sequencedata and studied the chromosomal phase of risk alleles relative toassociated SV mutations.

Somatic terminal 10q deletions associated strongly with the common SNPrs118137427 near FRA10B, a known genomic fragile site [34, 35] at theestimated common breakpoint of the 10q deletions (Table 1 and FIG. 6A).All 60 individuals with these mosaic 10q deletions had inherited thers118137427:G risk allele (RAF=5% in the population; FIG. 6C), which wasalways inherited on the same chromosome that subsequently acquired aterminal deletion (Table 1).

To identify a causal mutation potentially tagged by the rs118137427:Grisk allele, Applicant searched for acquired 10q deletions in WGS datafrom 2,076 other individuals (SFARI cohort). Applicant identified twoparent-child duos carrying the 10q terminal deletion (in mosaic form);all four individuals possessed expanded AT-rich repeats at FRA10B on thers118137427:G haplotype background (FIGS. 6D and 6E and FIG. 34).Further evidence that the rs118137427:G risk allele tags an unstableversion of the FRA10B locus [36] was provided by analysis of thevariable number tandem repeat (VNTR) sequence at FRA10B in the WGS data(from all 2,076 SFARI participants). This analysis revealed four novelVNTR motifs, which were carried by 30 SFARI participants in 13 families;all four novel motifs were present on the rs118137427:G haplotypebackground, despite the low frequency of that haplotype in thepopulation (5%) (FIG. 6E and FIGS. 42A-42B and 43). (The VNTRs did notassociate with autism status.) Two of the four novel VNTR sequencemotifs were sufficiently common in SFARI to impute into UK Biobank;although these two imputable VNTR motifs were estimated to be present injust 0.1-0.4% of the UKB cohort, they explained 24 of the 60 cases of10q deletion (Table 8). Interestingly, 51 of 60 individuals withterminal 10q deletions were female, and the age distribution of casesmatched the study population, a clear exception to the general patternof male-biased, age-dependent acquisition among other mosaic SVs (FIG.6B).

CNN-LOH events on chr1p strongly associated with three independent, rarerisk haplotypes (risk allele frequency, RAF=0.01-0.05%) at the MPLproto-oncogene at 1p34.1 (encoding the thrombopoietin receptor); each ofthe three haplotypes conferred >50-fold increased risk for 1p CNN-LOH(Table 1). Identity-by-descent analysis at the MPL locus suggested thatadditional or recurrent very rare risk variants are also present at thelocus (FIG. 44). Intriguingly, although gain-of function mutations inMPL are known to lead to myeloproliferative neo-plasms [37,38], the leadimputed SNP on one haplotype, rs369156948, is a loss-of-function (LOF)coding SNP in MPL; the other two lead SNPs tag long haplotypes thatinclude MPL (FIG. 7A and Table 9).

Applicant were able to identify an intriguing likely mechanism forselection of the CNN-LOH events involving MPL. For all 16 events forwhich Applicant could confidently phase the rare risk allele relative tothe somatic CNN-LOH, the risk allele was removed by the CNN-LOH (P=3×10-5; Table 1 and FIG. 7A). A plausible interpretation of these resultsis that among individuals with rare inherited variants that reduce MPLfunction, recovery of normal MPL gene activity via CNN-LOH provides aproliferative advantage. Despite the fact that clonal hematopoiesis is(at most loci) a strong risk factor for subsequent blood cancer, 0 of 36imputed carriers of the rs369156948 LOF allele had prevalent or incidenthematological cancer diagnoses, supporting the idea that this rareallele may actually be hypo-proliferative in its effects, and an objectof negative selection.

CNN-LOH events on chr11q associated strongly (>40-fold increased risk)with a rare risk haplotype (RAF=0.07%) surrounding the ATM gene at11q22.3 (Table 1, FIG. 7B, and Table 9). For all 6 CNN-LOH events forwhich Applicant could confidently phase the risk allele relative to thesomatic mutation, the LOH mutation had caused the rare risk allele tobecome homozygous (Table 1 and FIG. 7B). (This dynamic contrasts withthe dynamic at MPL, at which the rare, inherited risk haplotypes wereeliminated by LOH and clonal selection.) While more data will berequired to identify a causal variant, ATM is a clear putative target:ATM plays a key role in cell cycle regulation, and LOF mutations anddeletions of ATM are commonly observed in CLL [30, 31]. (In presentanalysis, acquired 11q deletions also appeared to target ATM; FIG. 4 andFIG. 22.)

CNN-LOH and loss events at chr15q associated with a rare, inherited 70kbdeletion that spanned all of TM2D3 and part of TARSL2 at 15q26.3. For 39of 41 events with high-confidence phase calls, the CNN-LOH or loss wasinferred to produce homozygosity or hemizygosity of the inheriteddeletion, removing the reference (non-deletion) allele from the genome(Table 1 and FIG. 8C). (This dynamic resembles the dynamic at ATM insuggesting clonal selection for the rare, inherited risk allele.) The70kb deletion was present at an allele frequency of 0.03% and conferreda ˜700-fold increased risk of 15q mutation: 45 of 89 carriers exhibiteddetectable 15q events (32 CNN-LOH, 2 loss, 11 uncalled; FIG. 46).Interestingly, the 70kb deletion was sometimes inherited on an allelethat also had an independent 290kb duplication of the locus (FIGS.45A-45B); on this more-complex allele, TM2D3 and TARSL2 gene dosage werenormal. Carriers of the more-complex allele did not exhibit thepredisposition to somatic SVs (FIG. 46). Further study will be requiredto determine a proliferative mechanism involving TM2D3, TARSL2, ornoncoding elements within the region.

The high penetrances (of up to 50%) for the above cis associations ledus to suspect that some risk-allele carriers might in fact harbormultiple subclonal cell populations with the associated somatic SVs.Applicant detected 41 individuals who had acquired two or more CNN-LOHmutations (with different breakpoints and allelic fractions) involvingthe same chromosome (FIG. 47). (In contrast, only 28 individuals carriedmultiple CNN-LOH mutations on distinct chromosomes.) For all 41individuals with multiple same-chromosome CNN-LOH events, all eventsinvolved recurrent selection of the same haplotype (in differentclones). Of the 41 haplotypes that were recurrently selected in the sameindividual, 16 carried one of the rare risk alleles identified by ourassociation scans, 14 appeared to involve other (still-unmapped) allelicdrivers at the same loci, and 11 involved other genomic loci (FIG. 47).This result indicates strong proliferative advantage conferred byCNN-LOH in these individuals and suggests that mitotic recombination issufficiently common as to yield multiple opportunities for clonalselection in individuals carrying inherited haplotypes with differentproclivities for expansion. In contrast to the results above describingrare alleles that strongly increase risk of acquiring nearby SVs,Applicant found two common variants on chromosome X that only weaklyincrease risk of X loss but strongly influence (in females heterozygousfor the variant) which X chromosome is lost in the expanded clone. Theseinvolved a strong association (P=6.6×10⁻²⁷, 1.9:1 bias in the losthaplotype) at Xp11.1 near DXZ1 and a weaker association (P=1.0×10⁻⁹,1.5:1 bias in the lost haplotype) at Xq23 near DXZ4 (Table 1, FIG. 48,and Table 11). These associations do not appear to be explained bybiased X chromosome inactivation [39] (Table 11) and hint at a mechanismvery different from those Applicant have described above (SupplementaryNote).

Trans Associations with Somatic SVs

Genetic variants near genes with roles in cell proliferation and cellcycle regulation predispose for male loss of Y [17,19], and female lossof X is also a heritable trait (h2=26% (17.4-36.2%) in sib-pairanalysis) [19], but no associations for loss of X have previously beenreported. Applicant confirmed the heritability of female X loss byperforming BOLT-REML [40] analysis (Methods), obtaining aSNP-heritability estimate of hg2=10.6% (s.e. 3.6%). Genome-wideassociation analysis for trans variants influencing loss of X furtherrevealed two novel genome-wide significant associations, at the SP140Land HLA loci (Table 1).

Germline variants that affect cancer risk or chromosome-maintenancephenotypes could in principle increase the risk of precancerous orbenign clonal expansions. Applicant considered 86 variants implicated inprevious GWAS on CLL, MPN, loss of Y, clonal hematopoiesis, and telomerelength, and tested these variants for trans association with sevenclasses of somatic SVs, stratifying events by chromosome type (autosomeversus X chromosome) and by copy number (Table 12). Four variantsreached Bonferroni significance (P<8.3×10−5): two linked variants inTERT (an intronic deletion recently associated with clonal hematopoiesis[11], and a common SNP previously associated with MPN [41] and JAK2V617F mutation [18]), a rare CHEK2 frameshift SNP (previously associatedwith JAK2 V617F mutation [18]), and a low-frequency 3′ UTR SNP in TP53(previously associated with cancers [42] and mLOY [19]) (Table 11). TheTERT and CHEK2 variants associated with multiple types of autosomalevents; in contrast, the TP53 SNP primarily associated with losses (bothfocal deletions on autosomes and whole-chromosome losses of X) (Table12). Carriers of the CHEK2 frameshift SNP were especially prone todeveloping multiple clonal SVs: 8 of 33 carriers with detected autosomalSVs had two or more detectable events (compared to an expectation of 3;P=0.008), generally in multiple clones.

Somatic SVs And Cancer Onset

Cancer-free individuals with detectable mosaicism (at any locus)have >10x elevated risk of subsequent hematological cancer [1-4]. Forchronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a slowly progressing hematologicalcancer that is known to be preceded by clonal mosaicism years beforeprogression [43, 44], mosaic aberrations observed in pre-CLL cases occurat the same loci as those observed in CLL [30, 31, 45, 46].

The large number of events detected in this work enabled us to evaluatethe possibility that specific mosaic SVs might more strongly predictrisk of specific cancers [47]. Applicant identified 17 somatic SV eventsthat significantly associated (at FDR<0.05) with subsequent cancerdiagnosis (>1 year after DNA collection) in analyses corrected for ageand sex (FIG. 8A and Table 13). The odds ratios for a subset of theseSVs were extremely high: several SVs commonly observed in blood cancersconferred >100-fold increased risk for incident CLL or MPN. DNMT3Adeletion on 2p conferred 3.5-fold increased risk for incident non-bloodcancer, though this weaker association might also be explained by otherunobserved risk factors that increase risk for both non-blood cancer andclonal hematopoiesis.

Based on the strength of association between aberrations commonlyobserved in CLL and incident CLL, Applicant reasoned that combiningmosaic status for these events with other risk factors—age, sex, CLLgenetic risk score (GRS) [48], and lymphocyte count—could improveprediction of incident CLL. A logistic model built from these predictorsachieved high prediction accuracy (AUC=0.92) in 10-foldcross-validation, outperforming predictors built without information onmosaicism (FIG. 8B and FIG. 49). This result was robust to restrictingthe analysis to individuals with normal lymphocyte counts (1-3.5×109/L)at assessment (AUC=0.81; FIG. 8C). Early clones with trisomy 12,detectable at very low cell fractions, primarily drove this increase inprediction accuracy (FIG. 50). Individuals with incident CLL exhibitedclonality up to 6 years before diagnosis, and clonal fraction wasinversely related with time to malignancy (FIG. 8D). Applicant furtherobserved that detectable mosaicism roughly doubled risk for all-cause

Discussion

By using long-range phase information to detect subtle chromosomalimbalances in genotype data from 151,202 individuals, Applicantassembled an atlas of 8,342 somatic SVs—an order of magnitude more thanprevious analyses [1, 2, 7, 8]. Applicant used the statistical powerafforded by these data to reveal the genomic distribution of mosaic SVs,identify many inherited drivers of clonal expansions, find likelymechanisms for these strong inherited influences, and investigate theeffects of clonal expansions on health outcomes.

Clonal expansions result from mutation followed by selectiveproliferation [10], and the above results uncover diverse biologicalmechanisms driving this transformation. First, genomic modificationsmust occur. Our atlas of somatic SVs confirmed that mitoticrecombination producing CNN-LOHs, missegregation producing chromosomalgains and losses, and replication errors producing interstitialdeletions are the most common processes producing SVs [1, 2, 7, 8] whilealso highlighting breakage at the fragile site FRA10B as a specificsource of mutation. Second, mutant cells harboring chromosomalaberrations must escape apoptosis and senescence. Applicant observedtrans drivers of clonality in TP53, CHEK2, and TERT, corroboratingrecent results linking variation in cell cycle genes to mLOY [19].Third, mutant cells must possess a proliferative advantage. Selectivepressures are often clear for SVs that alter copy number (e.g., lossesof tumor suppressor genes) [1, 2, 7, 8] but have been difficult to tracefor CNN-LOHs aside from instances in which a CNN-LOH provides a secondhit to a frequently mutated locus [49] or disrupts imprinting [50]. HereApplicant observed that CNN-LOHs can also achieve strong selectiveadvantage by duplicating or removing inherited alleles.

The high penetrances (of up to 50%) for the inherited CNN-LOH riskvariants challenge what is usually seen as a fundamental distinctionbetween inherited alleles and (more-capricious) acquired mutations,because a large fraction of carriers of the inherited allelessubsequently acquire and then clonally amplify the mutations inquestion. The high penetrances imply that mitotic recombination issufficiently common to predictably unleash latent, inheritedopportunities for clonal selection of homozygous cells during thelifespan of an individual. Similarly, Applicant observed Mendelianinheritance patterns for 10q breakage at FRA10B despite this eventinvolving an acquired (somatic) mutation (FIGS. 6A-6E).

Clonal expansions exhibit varying levels of proliferation and biologicaltransformation and thus have a spectrum of effects on health [10].Applicant found that many somatic SVs, including some of those driven bycis-acting genetic variation, had no discernible adverse effects.However, somatic SVs commonly seen in blood cancers strongly increasedcancer risk and could potentially be used for early detection. Aspopulation-scale efforts to collect genotype data and health outcomescontinue to expand—increasing both sample sizes and the power ofpopulation-based chromosomal phasing—Applicant anticipateever-more-powerful analyses of clonal hematopoiesis and its clinicalsequalae.

Methods

UK Biobank cohort and genotype intensity data. The UK Biobank is a verylarge prospective study of individuals aged 40-70 years at assessment[23]. Participants attended assessment centers between 2006-2010, wherethey contributed blood samples for genotyping and blood analysis andanswered questionnaires about medical history and environmentalexposures. In the years since assessment, health outcome data for theseindividuals (e.g., cancer diagnoses and deaths) have been accruing viaUK national registries.

Applicant analyzed genetic data from the UK Biobank consisting of152,729 samples typed on the Affymetrix UK BiLEVE and UK Biobank Axiomarrays with ˜800K SNPs each and >95% over-lap. Applicant removed 480individuals marked for exclusion from genomic analyses based onmissingness and heterozygosity filters and 1 individual who hadwithdrawn consent, leaving 152,248 samples. Applicant restricted thevariant set to biallelic variants with missingness <10% and Applicantfurther excluded 111 variants found to have significantly differentallele frequencies between the UK BiLEVE array and the UK Biobank array,leaving 725,664 variants on autosomes and the X chromosome. Finally,Applicant additionally excluded 118,139 variants for which fewer than 10samples (or for chrX, fewer than 5 female samples) were called ashomozygous for the minor allele; Applicant observed that genotype callsat these variants were susceptible to errors in which rare homozgyoteswere called as heterozygotes. Applicant phased the remaining 607,525variants using Eagle2 [26] with --Kpbwt=40,000 and otherwise defaultparameters.

Applicant transformed genotype intensities to log 2 R ratio (LRR) andB-allele frequency (BAF) values [51] (which measure total and relativeallelic intensities) after affine-normalization and GC wave-correction[52] in a manner similar to Jacobs et al. [1] (Supplementary Note). Foreach sample, Applicant then computed s.d.(BAF) among heterozygous siteswithin each autosome, and Applicant removed 320 samples with medians.d.(BAF)>0.11 indicating low genotype quality. Finally, Applicantremoved an additional 725 samples with evidence of possiblecontamination [8] (based on apparent short interstitial CNN-LOH eventsin regions of long-range linkage disequilibrium; see Supplementary Note)and 1 sample without phenotype data, leaving 151,202 samples foranalysis.

Detection of somatic SVs using long-range haplotype phase. HereApplicant outline the key ideas of our approach to somatic SV detection.

The core intuition is that Applicant wish to harness long-range phaseinformation to search for local imbalances between maternal vs. paternalallelic fractions in a cell population (FIGS. 9A-9C, 10A-10C, and11A-11C). The utility of haplotype phase for this purpose has previouslybeen recognized [8, 53, 54], but previous approaches have needed toaccount for phase switch errors occurring roughly every megabase, ageneral challenge faced by haplotype-based analyses [55]. In UK Biobank,Applicant have phase information accurate at the scale of tens ofmegabases [24, 26], enabling a new modeling approach and further gainsin detection sensitivity (FIG. 36).

The technique employs a three-state hidden Markov model (HMM) to captureSV-induced deviations in allelic balance (|ΔBAF|) at heterozygous sites(FIG. 51). The model has a single parameter θ representing the expectedabsolute BAF deviation at germline hets within an SV. In computationallyphased genotyping intensity data, multiplying phase calls with (signed)BAF deviations produces contiguous regions within the SV in which theexpected phased BAF deviation is either +θ or −θ (with sign flips atphase switch errors); outside the SV, no BAF deviation is expected. Thethree states of our HMM encode these three possibilities, and emissionsfrom the states represent noisy BAF measurements. Transitions betweenthe +θ and −θ states represent switch errors, while transitions between±0 and the 0 state capture SV boundaries.

Modeling observed phased BAF deviations using a parameterized HMM hasthe key benefit of naturally producing a likelihood ratio test statisticfor determining whether a chromosome contains a mosaic SV. Explicitly,for a given choice of 0, Applicant can compute the total probability ofthe observed BAF data under the assumption that SV-induced BAFdeviations have E[|ΔBAF|]=θ, using standard HMM dynamic programmingcomputations to integrate over uncertainty in phase switches and SVboundaries. Taking the ratio of the maximum likelihood over all possiblechoices of 0 to the likelihood for θ=0 (i.e., no SV) yields a teststatistic. If the HMM perfectly represented the data, this teststatistic could be compared to an asymptotic distribution. However,Applicant know in practice that parameters within the HMM (e.g.,transition probabilities) are imperfectly estimated, so Applicantinstead calibrated our test statistic empirically: Applicant estimatedits null distribution by computing test statistics on data withrandomized phase, and Applicant used this empirical null to control FDR.Finally, for chromosomes passing the FDR threshold, Applicant called SVboundaries by sampling state paths from the HMM (using the maximumlikelihood value of 0).

The above detection procedure uses only BAF data and ignores LRRmeasurements by design (to be maximally robust to genotyping artifacts);however, after detecting events, Applicant incorporated LRR data to calldetected SVs as loss, CNN-LOH, or gain. Mosaic SVs cause BAF (measuringrelative allelic intensity) to deviate from 0.5 at heterozygous sites,and losses and gains cause LRR (measuring total intensity) to deviatefrom 0, with deviations increasing with clonal cell fraction;accordingly, Applicant observed that plotting detected events by LRR andBAF deviation produced three linear clusters (FIG. 5A and FIG. 27),consistent with previous work [1, 2, 8]. Applicant called copy numberusing chromosome-specific clusters to take advantage of the differingfrequencies of event types on different chromosomes. Because theclusters converge as BAF deviation approaches zero, Applicant left copynumber uncalled for detected SVs at low cell fraction with <95%confident copy number, comprising 29% of all detected SVs. Applicantthen estimated clonal cell fractions as in ref. [1].

As a post-processing step to exclude possible constitutionalduplications, Applicant filtered events of length >10 Mb with LRR>0.35or LRR>0.2 and |ΔBAF|>0.16, and Applicant filtered events of length <10Mb with LRR>0.2 or LRR>0.1 and |ΔBAF|>0.1 (FIG. 44). (Mostconstitutional duplications were already masked in a pre-processing stepinvolving a separate HMM.

Enrichment of somatic SV types in blood lineages. Applicant analyzed 14blood count indices (counts and percentages of lymphocytes, basophils,monocytes, neutrophils, red cells, and platelets, as well asdistribution widths of red cells and platelets) from complete bloodcount data available for 97% of participants. Applicant restricted toindividuals of self-reported European ancestry (96% of the cohort),leaving 140,250 individuals; Applicant then stratified by sex andquantile normalized each blood index after regressing out age, agesquared, and smoking status.

To identify classes of somatic SVs linked to different blood cell types,Applicant first classified SVs based on chromosomal location and copynumber. For each autosome, Applicant defined five disjoint categories ofSVs that comprised the majority of detected events: loss on p-arm, losson q-arm, CNN-LOH on p-arm, CNN-LOH on q-arm, and gain. Applicantsubdivided loss and CNN-LOH events by arm but did not subdivide gainevents because most gain events are whole-chromosome trisomies (FIG. 1).For chromosome X, Applicant replaced the two loss categories with asingle whole-chromosome loss category. Altogether, this classificationresulted in 114 SV types. Applicant restricted our blood cell enrichmentanalyses to 78 SV types with at least 10 occurrences, and Applicantfurther excluded the chr17 gain category (because nearly all of theseevents arise from i(17q) isochromosomes already counted as 17p-events;FIG. 20).

For each of the 77 remaining SV types, Applicant computed enrichment ofSV detection among individuals with anomalous (top 1%) values of eachnormalized blood index using Fisher's exact test. Applicant reportedsignificant enrichments passing an FDR threshold of 0.05 (FIG. 5F andTable 6).

Chromosome-wide association tests for cis associations with somatic SVs.To identify inherited variants influencing nearby somatic SVs, Applicantperformed two types of association analyses. First, Applicant searchedfor variants that increased the probability of developing nearby somaticSVs. For each variant, Applicant performed a Fisher test for associationbetween the variant and up to three variant-specific case-controlphenotypes, defined by considering samples to be cases if they contained(i) loss, (ii)CNN-LOH, or (iii) gain events containing the variant orwithin 4 Mb (to allow for uncertainty in event boundaries). Applicanttested phenotypes with at least 25 cases. Applicant performed thesetests on 51 million imputed variants with minor allele frequency (MAF)>2×10⁻⁵ (imputed by UK Biobank using a merge of the UK10K and 1000Genomes Phase 3 reference panels [56]), excluding variants withnon-European MAF greater than five times their European MAF, whichtended to be poorly imputed. Applicant analyzed 120,664 individuals whoremained after restricting to individuals of self-reported British orIrish ancestry, removing principal component outliers (>4 standarddeviations),and imposing a relatedness cut off of 0.05 (usingplinkrel-cutoff 0.05)[57].

Applicant also ran a second form of association analysis searching forvariants for which somatic SVs tended to shift allelic balance(analogous to allele-specific expression). For a given class of SVs, foreach variant, Applicant examined heterozygous SV carriers for which theSV overlapped the variant, and Applicant performed a binomial test tocheck whether the SV was more likely to delete or duplicate one alleleversus the other. Applicant restricted the binomial test to individualsin which the variant was confidently phased relative to the SV (nodisagreement in five random resamples; Supplementary Note).

Given that the two association tests described above are independent,Applicant applied a two-stage discovery and validation approach toidentify genome-wide significant associations. Applicant used a P-valuethreshold of 10⁻⁸ for discovery in either test and checked for nominalP<0.05 significance for validation in the other test (reasoning thatvariants influencing somatic SVs would exhibit both types ofassociations). At all loci with P <10⁻⁸ for either test, the mostsignificant variant with P<10 ⁸ in one test validated in the other(Table 1). At identified loci, Applicant further searched for secondaryindependent associations reaching P<10⁻⁶.

In a final analyses, Applicant refined somatic SV phenotypes to slightlyincrease power to map associations. For the loci associated with 1p, 9p,and 15q CNN-LOH, Applicant found that association strength improved byexpanding case status to include all events reaching the telomere(because several detected telomeric events with uncertain copy numberwere probably CNN-LOH driven by the same germline variants). For theassociation signal at FRA10B, Applicant refined case status to onlyinclude terminal loss events extending from 10q25 to the telomere.

Identity-by-descent analysis at MPL and FRA10B. At loci for whichApplicant found evidence of multiple causal rare variants, Applicantsearched for long haplotypes shared identical-by-descent among SVcarriers to further explore the possibility of additional or recurrentcausal variants. Applicant called IBD tracts using GERMLINE withhaplotype extension [58].

SFARI Simons Simplex Collection dataset. The Simons Simplex Collection(SSC) is a repository of genetic samples from autism simplex familiescollected by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)[27]. Applicant analyzed 2,076 whole-genome sequences from the firstphase of SSC sequencing (median coverage 37.8X [59]) to examine whethermosaic SVs Applicant detected contributed to genetic risk of autism.Approved researchers can obtain the SSC population dataset described inthis study by applying at https://base.sfari.org.

Detection and calling of 70kb deletion at 15q26.3. Applicant discoveredthe inherited 70kb deletion associated with 15q CNN-LOH and loss bymapping the 15q26.3 association signal (specifically, the rs182643535tag SNP) in WGS data (FIG. 7C and FIG. 37). Applicant then called thisdeletion in the UK Biobank SNP-array data using genotype intensities at24 probes in the deleted region (FIG. 38).

Detection and imputation of VNTRs at FRA10B. For all SFARI sampleswith >10 reads at the FRA10B site, Applicant performed local assembly ofthe reads to attempt to generate a consensus VNTR sequence. Applicantidentified four distinct sequences in 13 families (FIGS. 34 and 35).Applicant further examined individuals with high fractions ofnon-reference reads at FRA10B to find additional VNTR carriers.Applicant assembled a conservative list of 30 carriers with sufficientread evidence (requiring less evidence if another individual in thefamily was a carrier). Due to read dropout in some samples, it ispossible these VNTR sequences are found in additional SFARI samples.Applicant imputed the VNTR sequences into UK Biobank using Minimac3[60].

GWAS and heritability estimation for trans drivers of clonality.Applicant tested variants with MAF>0.1% for trans associations with sixclasses of SVs (any event, any loss, any CNN-LOH, any gain, anyautosomal event, any autosomal loss) on 120,664 unrelatedEuropean-ancestry individuals (described above) using BOLT-LMM [61],including 10 principal components, age, and genotyping array ascovariates. Applicant also tested association with female X loss usingan expanded set of 3,462 likely X loss calls at an FDR of 0.1,restricting this analysis to 66,685 female individuals. In our targetedanalysis of 86 variants implicated in previous GWAS, Applicant applied aBonferroni significance threshold of 8.3 ×10−5 based on 86 variants and7 phenotypes. Applicant estimated SNP heritability of X loss usingBOLT-REML [40], transforming estimates to the liability scale [62].

Analysis of X chromosome inactivation in GEUVADIS RNA-seq data. To testfor possible mediation of preferential X haplotype loss by biased Xchromosome inactivation (XCI), Applicant examined GEUVADIS RNA-seq data[63] for evidence of biased XCI near the primary biased loss associationat Xp11.1. Applicant identified three coding SNPs in FAAH2 within thepericentromeric linkage disequilibrium block containing the associationsignal. Applicant analyzed RNA-seq data for 61 European-ancestryindividuals who were heterozygous for at least one SNP (60 of 61 wereheterozygous for all three SNPs, and the remaining individual washeterozygous at two of the SNPs). Applicant used GATK [64] ASE ReadCounter to identify allele-specific expression from RNA-seq BAM files.Most individuals displayed strong consistent allele-specific expressionacross the three SNPs, as expected for XCI in clonal lymphoblastoid celllines [39]; however, Applicant observed no evidence of systematicallybiased XCI in favor of one allele or the other (Table 10).

UK Biobank cancer phenotypes. Applicant analyzed UK cancer registry dataprovided by UK Biobank for 23,901 individuals with one or more prevalentor incident cancer diagnoses. Cancer registry data included date ofdiagnosis and ICD-O-3 histology and behavior codes, which Applicant usedto identify individuals with diagnoses of CLL, MPN, blood, and non-bloodcancers [65, 66]. Because our focus was on prognostic power of somaticSVs for predicting diagnoses of incident cancers >1 year after DNAcollection, Applicant excluded from analysis all individuals withcancers reported prior this time (either from cancer registry data orself-report of prevalent cancers). Applicant also restricted attentionto the first diagnosis of cancer in each individual, and Applicantcensored diagnoses after Sep. 30, 2014, as suggested by UK Biobank(resulting in a median follow-up time of 5.7 years, s.d. 0.8 years,range 4-9 years). Finally, Applicant restricted analyses to individualswho self-reported European ancestry. These exclusions reduced the totalcounts of incident cases to 78 CLL, 42 MPN, 441 blood, and 7,458non-blood cancers, which Applicant analyzed with 119,330 controls.

Estimation of cancer risk conferred by clonal SVs. To identify classesof somatic SVs associated with incident cancer diagnoses, Applicantclassified SVs based on chromosomal location and copy number into the114 classes described above. Applicant then restricted attention to the45 classes with at least 30 carriers. For each SV class, Applicantconsidered a sample to be a case if it contained only the SV or if theSV had highest cell fraction among all mosaic SVs detected in the sample(i.e., Applicant did not count carriers of subclonal events as cases).Applicant computed odds ratios and P-values for association between SVclasses and incident cancers using Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) teststo stratify by sex and by age (in six 5-year bins). Applicant used theCMH test to compute odds ratios (for incident cancer any time duringfollow-up) rather than using a Cox proportional hazards model to computehazard ratios because both the SV phenotypes and the incident cancerphenotypes were rare, violating normal approximations underlyingregression. Applicant reported significant associations passing an FDRthreshold of 0.05 (FIG. 5A and Table 13).

Prediction of incident CLL. Applicant considered three nested logisticmodels for prediction of incident CLL. In the first model, a baseline,Applicant included only age and sex as explanatory variables.

In the second model, Applicant added log lymphocyte count and CLLgenetic risk (computed using 14 high-confidence GWAS hits from ref. [48]that had both been previously published and reached P<5×10-8); loglymphocyte count provided most of the improvement in accuracy. In thefull model, Applicant added explanatory variables for 11q-, +12, 13q-,13q CNN-LOH, 14q-, 22q-, and the total number of other autosomal events.

Applicant assessed the accuracy of each model on two benchmark sets ofsamples, one containing all samples (passing the exclusions above), andthe other restricting to individuals with normal lymphocyte counts(1-3.5×109/L) at assessment, i.e., exhibiting at most slight clonality.(In the second benchmark set, Applicant restricted the mosaic events inthe full model to +12, 13q-, and 13q CNN-LOH.) Applicant performed10-fold stratified cross-validation to compare model performance.Applicant assessed prediction accuracy by merging results from allcross-validation folds and computing area under the receiver operatingcharacteristic curve (AUC) (FIGS. 8B and 8C), and Applicant alsomeasured precision-recall performance (FIG. 41).

Estimation of mortality risk conferred by clonal SVs. Applicant analyzedUK death registry data provided by UK Biobank for 4,619 individualsreported to have died since assessment. Applicant censored deaths afterDec. 31, 2015, as suggested by UK Biobank, leaving 4,518 reported deathsover a median follow-up time of 6.9 years (range 5-10 years). Applicantexamined the relationship between somatic SVs and mortality, aiming toextend previous observations that mosaic point mutations increasemortality risk [3, 4, 11]. For this analysis, Applicant wereinsufficiently powered to stratify SVs by chromosome due to the weakereffects of SVs on mortality risk and the relatively small number ofdeaths reported during follow-up. Applicant therefore stratified SVsonly by copy number and computed the hazard ratio conferred by eachevent class using a Cox proportional hazards model. Applicant restrictedthese analyses to individuals who self-reported European ancestry, andApplicant adjusted for age and sex as well as smoking status, which waspreviously associated with clonal hematopoiesis [3, 11, 21] andassociates with mosaicism in UK Biobank (P=0.00017). Applicant observedthat all classes of events conferred increased mortality amongindividuals with or without previous cancer diagnoses, with lossesconferring the highest risk and CNN-LOHs conferring the lowest (FIG. 8Dand Table 14).

Applicant found the approach that described herein to be quite robust,with the overall genomic distribution of detected events broadlyconsistent with previous work [1, 2, 7, 8]. However, in the initialanalysis, Applicant did detect several hundred apparent shortinterstitial CNN-LOH events indicative of technical artifacts (giventhat CNN-LOHs are generally produced by mitotic recombination andstretch to a telomere). On inspection, Applicant discovered that theoverwhelming majority of these artefactual events occurred at fivespecific regions of the genome: chr3:˜45 Mb (11 events), chr6:˜30 Mb(709 events), chr8:˜45 Mb (12 events), chr10:˜80 Mb (40 events),chr17:˜40 Mb (40 events). Applicant also noticed that multiple suchdetections often occurred in the same sample; the union of all carrierscontained 717 samples, nearly all of which carried the chr6 artifact atHLA (which we did not mask from this initial analysis). The chr3, chr6,and chr8 regions have all been previously noted to harbor long-range LD[70], which suggested sample contamination [8] as the likely culprit: ifa sample were contaminated with cells from another individual, then inregions of long-range LD (i.e., low haplotype diversity), allelicbalance could shift in favor of one of the original sample's parentalhaplotypes (whichever one was a closer match to the foreign DNA). To besafe, Applicant therefore excluded all 717 of these samples from theanalysis, and Applicant further excluded 6 individuals with three ormore interstitial CNN-LOH calls and 2 individuals with three or morecalls with high implied switch error rates, for a total of 725exclusions.

Independent of the above issue, Applicant also observed a rarertechnical artifact in which short interstitial CNN-LOH calls were madein runs of homozygosity (ROH) in which a small fraction of sites hadbeen incorrectly called as hets and subsequently phased on the samehaplotype, resulting in very strong phase-aligned BAF deviations. Thesecalls were easy to filter; Applicant used a criterion of lowheterozygosity (<⅓ the expected heterozygosity in the region) andLRR>−0.1 (guaranteeing that the region could not possibly be hemizygousdue to a loss event). After applying these filters, Applicant were leftwith only 32 interstitial CNN-LOH calls among all samples with noobvious artifacts upon manual review.

Analysis of Focal Deletions

The genomic distribution of somatic SVs is highly non-random, andcommonly deleted regions (CDRs)<1 Mb in length are of particularinterest as they may indicate haplo insufficient genes for which loss ofone copy leads to excessive cell proliferation [2]. Excluding V(D)Jrecombination regions in 14q11.2, 14q32.33, and 22q11.22, the three mostcommonly deleted regions targeted DNMT3A on 2p, TET2 on 4q, andDLEU2/DLEU7 on 13q, matching observations in previous studies [2, 8];Applicant further observed that large majorities of CNN-LOH events onthese chromosome arms included these genes, suggesting convergentpatterns of selection (FIG. 4 and FIG. 38). (Applicant observed asimilar pattern with longer deletions and CNN-LOH events spanning ATM on11q.) Applicant also observed CDRs at three genes not previously notedin population studies of somatic SVs but commonly mutated in cancers:ETT76 on 12p (mutated in hematological malignancies), NF1 on 17q(deleted in neurofibromatosis type 1), and CHEK2 on 22q (involved in theDNA damage response and mutated in many cancers) (FIGS. 15, 20, and 25).Additionally, Applicant observed two new CDRs for which literaturesearch implicated putative target genes: RPA2, which is one of six genesin a 300kb region of 1p36.11-1p35.3 contained in six deletions and isinvolved in DNA damage response [71], and RYBP, which is the only genein a 620kb region of 3p13 contained in seven deletions and has beenreported to be a tumor suppressor gene [72] (FIGS. 12 and 14).

To detect CDRs, Applicant needed to identify short genomic regionscovered by many loss events; however, Applicant also needed to requirethat the losses be somewhat specific to a focal region (e.g., a shortdeletion should carry much more weight than a deletion of an entirearm). To capture this intuition, Applicant gave each loss event a weightequal to 6 Mb/[event length], with a maximum weight of 1 (for eventsshorter than 6 Mb). Applicant then examined all regions with a totalweight exceeding 4 and checked whether the pileup of losses at theseregions was sufficiently focal to be deemed a CDR.

Analysis of Biased X Chromosome Loss

In addition to performing standard GWAS on mosaic status, Applicant alsosearched the detected SVs for a different type of association: shift inallelic balance in favor of one allele versus the other in heterozygousindividuals (analogous to allele-specific expression). Applicant werewell-powered to run this analysis on female chromosome X owing to thehigh frequency of X loss (FIG. 4), and to further increase associationpower, Applicant performed X loss association analyses using an expandedset of 3,462 likely X loss calls at an FDR of 0.1. Applicant observed astriking association (P=6.6×10⁻²⁷, 1.9:1 bias in the lost haplotype) atXp11.1 near DXZ1 and a weaker association (P=1.0×10⁻⁹, 1.5:1 bias in thelost haplotype) at Xq23 near DXZ4 (Table 1, FIG. 48, and Table 10). Atboth loci, Applicant also observed nominal associations (P=1×10⁻³)between allele count and X loss (Table 1). The Xp11.1 and Xq23 biassignals appear to be independent (2.7:1 bias when heterozygous riskhaplotypes are in phase and 1.2:1 bias when out of phase). Applicantinitially suspected that these observations could be explained by biasedX chromosome inactivation (XCI) [39], especially given the role ofXp11.1 and Xp23 in XCI [73], but Applicant did not find any evidence ofbiased XCI in GEUVADIS RNA-seq data [63] (Table 11). Interestingly,Applicant observed weak evidence that the lead SNP rs2942875 at Xp11.1appeared to have similar effects on gain of X (Table 10), suggesting amechanism involving X missegregation, but larger sample sizes will berequired to investigate this possibility; Applicant only called 29likely X gains at FDR 0.1.

TABLE 1 Novel genome-wide significant associations of somatic SVs withinherited variants. GWAS Risk allelic shift in hets SV type LocusVariant Location Alleles^(a) RAF^(b) P OR (95% CI) N_(inc) ^(c) N_(dec)P cis associations 10q loss FRA10B rs118137427^(d) 10q25.2 A/G 0.05 6.1× 10⁻⁴² 18 (12-26) 0 43 2.3 × 10⁻¹

1p CNN-LOH MPL rs144279563 1p34.1 C/T 0.0005 6.2 × 10⁻¹⁶ 53 (28-99) 0 93.9 × 10⁻³

rs182971382 1p34.1 A/G 0.0003 3.0 × 10⁻¹¹ 63 (29-139) 0 4 1.3 × 10⁻¹

rs369156948^(e) 1p34.2 C/T 0.0001 7.3 × 10⁻⁸  103 (35-300) 0 3 2.5 ×10⁻¹

11q CNN-LOH ATM rs532198118 11q22.3 A/G 0.0007 7.4 × 10⁻⁹  41 (18-94) 60 3.1 × 10⁻²

15q CNN-LOH TM2D3, 70 kb deletion^(f) 15q26.3 CN = 1/0 0.0003 1.3 ×10⁻⁸⁶ 698 (442-1102) 39 2 7.8 × 10⁻¹

and loss TARSL2 chrX loss DXZ1 rs2942875 Xp11.1 T/C 0.55 9.7 × 10⁻⁴ 1.09 (1.04-1.15) 423 796 6.6 × 10⁻²

DXZ4 rs11091036 Xq23 C/G 0.73 1.1 × 10⁻³  1.10 (1.04-1.17) 369 555 1.0 ×10⁻⁹

trans associations chrX loss SP140L rs725201 2q37.1 G/T 0.56 9.2 × 10⁻¹⁰1.17 (1.12-1.24) — — — HLA rs141806003 6p21.33 C/CAAAG 0.34 6.1 × 10⁻¹⁰1.18 (1.12-1.25) — — — Results of two independent association tests arereported: (i) a Fisher test treating individuals with a given SV type ascases; and (ii) (for cis associations) a binomial test for biasedallelic imbalance in heterozygous cases (Methods). Loci with P < 1 ×10⁻⁸ in either test are reported; each cis association detected by onetest reaches nominal (P < 0.05) significance in the other test,providing validation. At significant loci, the lead associated variantas well as additional independent associations reaching P < 1 × 10⁻⁶ arereported. ^(a)Risk lowering/risk increasing allele. ^(b)Risk allelefrequency (in UK Biobank European-ancestry individuals). ^(c)Number ofmosaic individuals heterozygous for the variant in which the somaticevent shifted the allelic balance in favor of the risk allele (byduplication of its chromosomal segment and/or loss of the homologoussegment). ^(d)rs118137427 tags expanded repeats at FRA10B (FIG. 3).^(e)rs369156948 is a nonsense mutation in MPL. ^(f)This deletion spanschr15: 102.15-102.22 Mb (hg19) and is tagged by rs182643535.

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TABLE 2 Number of somatic SVs detected per chromosome ChromosomeN_(loss) N_(CNN-LOH) N_(gain) N_(unknown) N_(total) chr1 29 318 17 134498 chr2 66 56 10 48 180 chr3 18 53 41 63 175 chr4 47 64 8 41 160 chr549 40 24 38 151 chr6 32 68 6 64 170 chr7 70 43 5 40 158 chr8 22 35 42 44143 chr9 19 210 38 78 345 chr10 70 29 5 31 135 chr11 98 257 1 105 461chr12 28 67 156 95 346 chr13 177  111 0 73 361 chr14   51 ^(/←) 223 38135 447 chr15 14 121 59 93 287 chr16 43 142 2 53 240 chr17 66 112 37 89304 chr18 14 20 57 40 131 chr19  6 90 17 75 188 chr20 140  55 3 29 227chr21 20 35 31 67 153 chr22   39 ^(/←) 88 62 113 302 All autosomes 1118 2237 659 1548 5562 Female chrX 1862  28 24 866 2780 ^(/←) Deletions onchr14 and chr22 include V(D)J recombination events (25 events on chr14and 25 events on chr22).

TABLE 3 Distribution of the number of detected somatic autosomal SVs perindividual. Somatic SV count Frequency 0 146313 1 4448 2 295 3 103 4 275 7 6 4 7 0 8 2 9 1 10 0 11 1 12 1 Most individuals with severaldetected somatic SVs have prevalent or incident cancers.

TABLE 4 Co-occurrence enrichment among somatic SVs SV1 SV2 P OR (95% CI)3+ 12+  3.1 × 10⁻¹⁰ 170 (65-144)  3p− 13q− 1.4 × 10⁻⁷  410 (105-1598) 3+13q− 7.1 × 10⁻⁸  120 (42-344) 3+ 18+  2.7 × 10⁻¹⁸ 829 (345-1991) 4+ 18+ 1.3 × 10⁻⁹  2361 (515-10832) 8+ 9+ 1.1 × 10⁻⁷  381 (112-1298) 12+  13q−1.5 × 10⁻⁸  41 (18-94) 12+  18+  1.1 × 10⁻³³ 473 (253-884) 12+  19+  8.9× 10⁻³⁴ 3331 (1061-10457) 12+  22q− 4.5 × 10⁻⁸  135 (47-388) 13q− 13q= 4.1 × 10⁻⁶⁷ 208 (137-313) 13q− 14q− 3.7 × 10⁻¹⁹ 288 (135-616) 13q= 14q−3.2 × 10⁻⁶  120 (36-396) 13q− 22q− 6.3 × 10⁻⁸  124 (43-356) 13q= 22q−2.1 × 10⁻⁶  139 (42-160) 13q− X+ 8.8 × 10⁻¹⁰ 403 (130-1255) 17p− 21q−2.7 × 10⁻¹² 1919 (565-6522) 18+  19+  3.7 × 10⁻²¹ 2671 (953-7489) Wereport pairs of somatic SV types (grouped by chromosome arm and copynumber) with significant co-occurrence (P < 8 × 10⁻⁶ Bonferronithreshold and at least three individuals carrying both events). (Wesubdivided loss and CNN-LOH events by p-arm vs. q-arm, but we did notsubdivide gain events by arm because most gain events arewhole-chromosome trisomies; e.g., “3+” combines all gains-partial orcomplete-on chromosome 3.) We excluded individuals with >3 detected SVsin our calculations of co-occurrence enrichment to prevent individualswith large numbers of SVs (typically cancer cases) from dominating theresults. Co-occurrence of 13− and 13= events (i.e., 13q14 deletion and13q CNN-LOH, a frequent combination in chronic lymphocytic leukemia) wascomputed using a slightly different procedure than the rest of the tablebecause these events affect both homologous copies of chr13, creating aspecial case not considered by our detection algorithm (which calls only13q CNN-LOH in this circumstance). Specifically, we called 13q14deletions based on mean total intensity (LRR) in 13q14 (50.6-51.6 Mb);we then computed co-occurrence with 13q CNN-LOH events.

TABLE 5 Fraction of individuals with detected somatic SVs as a functionof age. Age range % with autosomal event % of females with chrX event<45 1.7% (0.1%) 0.9% (0.1%) 45-50 2.0% (0.1%) 1.1% (0.1%) 50-55 2.3%(0.1%) 1.7% (0.1%) 55-60 3.0% (0.1%) 3.0% (0.1%) 60-65 4.0% (0.1%) 4.7%(0.2%) >65 4.9% (0.1%) 7.2% (0.2%) This table provides numerical dataplotted in FIG. 5D.

TABLE 6 Age and sex distribution of individuals with detected somaticSVs on each chromosome Loss events CNN-LOH events p-arm q-arm p-armq-arm Gain events chr Mean age Frac. male Mean age Frac. male Mean ageFrac. male Mean age Frac. male Mean age Frac. male 1 61.0 (1.9) 0.54(0.14) 58.8 (1.8) 0.69 (0.12) 59.5 (0.5) 0.49 (0.04) 59.5 (0.6) 0.50(0.04) 61.4 (1.5) 0.41 (0.12) 2 62.0 (0.8) 0.40 (0.07) 61.0 (2.3) 0.62(0.14) 60.6 (1.1) 0.38 (0.09) 58.0 (1.3) 0.26 (0.09) 54.7 (2.7) 0.40(0.16) 3 57.1 (2.3) 0.50 (0.15) — — 59.8 (1.6) 0.45 (0.11) 59.1 (1.6)0.47 (0.09) 61.5 (1.0) 0.74 (0.07) 4 — — 61.8 (1.0) 0.56 (0.08) 53.3(2.7) 0.56 (0.18) 62.4 (0.9) 0.50 (0.07) 63.2 (2.3) 0.62 (0.18) 5 — —60.3 (1.1) 0.49 (0.08) — — 57.9 (1.4) 0.50 (0.08) 61.5 (1.2) 0.57 (0.11)6 64.4 (1.3) 0.17 (0.17) 60.8 (1.5) 0.58 (0.10) 56.2 (1.0) 0.43 (0.07)58.3 (2.3) 0.47 (0.13) 57.7 (3.4) 0.50 (0.22) 7 61.4 (2.3) 0.25 (0.16)62.0 (0.8) 0.56 (0.07) 61.4 (1.5) 0.50 (0.14) 57.6 (1.9) 0.62 (0.10)59.1 (4.6) 0.20 (0.20) 8 61.2 (2.0) 0.47 (0.13) 63.5 (1.1) 0.71 (0.18) —— 57.2 (1.2) 0.48 (0.09) 61.2 (1.0) 0.50 (0.08) 9 — — 59.1 (2.6) 0.47(0.13) 59.7 (0.7) 0.56 (0.05) 59.3 (0.8) 0.51 (0.05) 61.2 (1.1) 0.55(0.08) 10 — — 56.8 (1.0) 0.20 (0.05) 61.2 (2.8) 0.33 (0.17) 58.8 (1.9)0.30 (0.11) 60.6 (4.6) 0.40 (0.24) 11 57.5 (2.5) 0.54 (0.14) 62.0 (0.7)0.60 (0.05) 58.3 (0.6) 0.54 (0.04) 61.7 (0.6) 0.55 (0.05) — — 12 62.0(1.9) 0.25 (0.13) 60.0 (1.5) 0.47 (0.13) 58.2 (2.7) 0.42 (0.15) 60.5(1.0) 0.47 (0.07) 62.4 (0.5) 0.54 (0.04) 13 — — 61.5 (0.4) 0.64 (0.04) —— 59.5 (0.8) 0.59 (0.05) — — 14 — — 61.1 (0.8) 0.72 (0.07) — — 59.9(0.5) 0.46 (0.03) 62.9 (0.7) 0.61 (0.08) 15 — — 62.5 (2.0) 0.64 (0.13) —— 59.5 (0.7) 0.51 (0.05) 65.7 (0.4) 0.83 (0.05) 16 56.1 (1.4) 0.28(0.08) 63.2 (1.5) 0.71 (0.13) 59.1 (0.9) 0.54 (0.06) 60.1 (0.9) 0.48(0.06) — — 17 61.1 (1.0) 0.52 (0.07) 59.5 (1.9) 0.56 (0.13) 58.5 (1.6)0.41 (0.11) 58.1 (0.8) 0.44 (0.05) 60.3 (1.2) 0.46 (0.08) 18 55.5 (2.9)0.67 (0.21) 61.2 (2.6) 0.50 (0.22) — — 61.5 (1.7) 0.35 (0.12) 62.2 (0.8)0.70 (0.06) 19 60.8 (2.6) 0.80 (0.20) — — 59.2 (1.2) 0.43 (0.08) 60.6(1.0) 0.53 (0.07) 60.9 (1.5) 0.76 (0.11) 20 — — 62.1 (0.6) 0.70 (0.04)59.1 (2.6) 0.45 (0.16) 57.9 (1.3) 0.38 (0.08) — — 21 — — 59.2 (1.8) 0.37(0.11) — — 57.4 (1.5) 0.56 (0.09) 60.8 (1.1) 0.81 (0.07) 22 — — 62.8(0.7) 0.66 (0.08) — — 60.7 (0.8) 0.36 (0.05) 61.2 (0.8) 0.52 (0.06) X60.3 (2.3) — 59.0 (2.5) — 61.4 (3.0) — 60.3 (1.1) — 56.8 (2.0) —

TABLE 7 Enrichment of somatic SVs in individuals with anomalous (top 1%)blood indices SV Blood index P-value q-value OR (95% CI)  1p− Lymphocyte# 0.0027 0.047 33.1 (6.7-163.9)  1p− Lymphocyte % 0.0027 0.047 33.1(6.7-163.9)  2p= Monocyte # 0.0027 0.047 11.9 (3.6-39.5)  3p− Lymphocyte# 0.002  0.038 39.7 (7.7-204.6)  3p− Lymphocyte % 0.002  0.038 39.7(7.7-204.6) 3+ Lymphocyte # 3.6e−6 0.00015 26.1 (9.7-70.1) 3+ Lymphocyte% 3.6e−6 0.00015 26.1 (9.7-70.1)  4q= Monocyte % 2.3e−7 1.2e−5  19.3(8.6-43.5)  7q− Lymphocyte # 3.3e−5 0.00097 15.5 (6.0-39.9)  7q−Lymphocyte % 3.3e−5 0.00097 15.5 (6.0-39.9)  9p= Red #  1.1e−13 7.6e−1217.7 (10.2-30.6)  9p= Hematocrit   3e−11  2e−9 14.9 (8.3-26.8)  9p= RBC 2.8e−16 2.5e−14 20.5 (12.1-34.7) dist. width  9p= Platelet #  1.9e−324.8e−30 39.3 (25.3-61.0)  9p= Platelet crit  4.7e−34 1.6e−31 41.3(26.7-63.8)  9p= Platelet  7e−5 0.0019 7.5 (3.5-16.2) dist. width 9+Neutrophil # 1.1e−5 0.0004 19.9 (7.6-52.0) 9+ Neutrophil %  0.000220.0054 15.3 (5.3-43.8) 9+ RBC 1.1e−5 0.0004 19.9 (7.6-52.0) dist. width9+ Platelet #  0.00022 0.0054 15.3 (5.3-43.8) 11q− Lymphocyte # 4.2e−82.3e−6  14.5 (7.2-29.2) 11q− Lymphocyte % 8.1e−5 0.0021 9.2 (4.0-21.2)11q− Platelet 8.1e−5 0.0021 9.2 (4.0-21.2) dist. width 11q= Lymphocyte #0.0001 0.0026 7.0 (3.3-15.2) 12+  Lymphocyte #  2.2e−20 3.2e−18 22.2(13.8-35.7) 12+  Lymphocyte %  3.7e−15   3e−13 17.2 (10.3-28.9) 13q−Lymphocyte #  3.3e−117  3.3e−114 163.4 (113.3-235.7) 13q− Lymphocyte %  8e−96   4e−93 116.3 (81.3-166.4) 13q− Basophil #  4.2e−10 2.6e−8  11.8(6.6-21.0) 13q− Basophil % 0.0016 0.03 5.1 (2.2-11.6) 13q− Monocyte #3.7e−5 0.001 6.9 (3.4-14.2) 13q= Lymphocyte #  5.2e−17 5.2e−15 23.0(13.6-39.1) 13q= Lymphocyte %  2.5e−14 1.9e−12 19.7 (11.3-34.4) 14q−Lymphocyte #  6.4e−20 7.1e−18 73.7 (36.9-147.3) 14q− Lymphocyte % 6.4e−20 7.1e−18 73.7 (36.9-147.3) 14q− Basophil #  0.00032 0.0075 13.7(4.8-39.0) 14q= Monocyte %  0.00085 0.018 4.3 (2.1-8.7) 16p− Monocyte %0.0022 0.04 12.9 (3.9-43.2) 16q− Lymphocyte # 4.6e−6 0.00018 49.7(14.9-165.1) 16q− Lymphocyte % 4.6e−6 0.00018 49.7 (14.9-165.1) 16p=Monocyte % 0.0009 0.019 7.2 (2.9-17.9) 17p− Lymphocyte # 4.6e−9 2.7e−7 25.7 (11.8-56.0) 17p− Lymphocyte %  0.00062 0.013 11.3 (4.0-32.0) 17q−Platelet  0.00033 0.0076 27.1 (7.5-97.1) dist. width 18+  Lymphocyte # 0.00056 0.012 11.7 (4.1-33.0) 19+  Lymphocyte # 6.6e−6 0.00024 44.1(13.6-143.5) 19+  Lymphocyte %  0.00026 0.0063 29.8 (8.2-108.3) 20q−Neutrophil % 0.001  0.02 5.6 (2.4-12.7) 20q− RBC  2e−5 0.00062 7.6(3.7-15.6) dist. width 20q− Platelet 0.001  0.02 5.6 (2.4-12.7) dist.width 22q− Lymphocyte #  1.6e−31 3.2e−29 190.7 (88.5-410.9) 22q−Lymphocyte %  5.5e−25 9.1e−23 123.3 (59.2-256.8) 22+  Lymphocyte #  5e−82.6e−6 18.1 (8.5-38.5) 22+  Lymphocyte % 1.4e−5 0.00044 13.0 (5.5-30.4)−X Lymphocyte # 1.5e−6 7.1e−5  2.4 (1.8-3.4) −X Lymphocyte % 3.7e−60.00015 2.4 (1.7-3.3)

TABLE 8 Association of FRA10B variable number tandem repeats withbreakage at 10q25.2 (a) Variable number tandem repeats identified inSFARI data and imputed into UK Biobank Variant MAF #del(10q) PImputation R² VNTR1 0.0044 21/60  3 × 10⁻²⁶ 0.65 VNTR2 0.0003 0/60 0.50.35 VNTR3 0.0000 0/60 0.5 0.16 VNTR4 0.0015 3/60 3 × 10⁻⁴  0.52 AnyVNTR 0.0062 24/60  5 × 10⁻²⁸ 0.60 (a) Lead associated SNPs typed orimputed in UK Biobank Variant MAF #del(10q) P INFO rs118137427 0.052760/60 6 × 10⁻⁴² 1.000 (typed) rs758889647 0.0015 13/60 4 × 10⁻²¹ 0.695

TABLE 9 SNPs at MPL and ATM associated with cis somatic CNN-LOH at P <10⁻⁷ SNP hg19 coordinates Alleles RAF P OR (95% CI) MPL locus:associations with chr1p CNN-LOH rs543652228 1:43640972 A/G 0.0003 2.4 ×10⁻⁹  51 (22-118) rs777132997 1:43669098 A/G 0.0002 2.0 × 10⁻¹⁰ 79(34-187) rs757080968 1:43720418 C/G 0.0002 2.6 × 10⁻¹⁰ 76 (32-178)rs547321640 1:43752900 T/C 0.0002 1.0 × 10⁻⁸  71 (28-180) rs5383585081:43753105  T/G 0.0002 1.0 × 10⁻⁸  71 (28-180) rs549761468 1:43788667C/T 0.0002 2.1 × 10⁻¹⁰ 79 (34-187) rsl43549194 1:43815673 G/T  0.00152.1 × 10⁻⁸  14 (7-27) rs369156948 1:43817942 C/T 0.0001 7.3 × 10⁻⁸  103(35-300) rs576674585 1:43892277 A/C 0.0001 4.9 × 10⁻⁹  83 (32-214)rs558677971 1:43895592 G/A 0.0002 2.4 × 10⁻⁸  59 (23-149) rs5664970621:43897662 C/T 0.0002 2.4 × 10⁻⁸  59 (23-149) rs143305686 1:44134295 A/G0.0018 1.7 × 10⁻¹² 17 (10-30) rs773168056 1:44156366 A/G 0.0003 4.2 ×10⁻⁹  46 (20-106) rs182971382 1:44167774 A/G 0.0003 3.0 × 10⁻¹¹ 63(29-139) rs554498272 1:44190215 G/A 0.0001 4.8 × 10⁻¹¹ 103 (43-248)rs765697775 1:44546545 C/T 0.0006 9.5 × 10⁻¹⁵ 41 (22-76) rs5407403931:45126775 C/A 0.0018 3.1 × 10⁻¹⁰ 15 (8-27) rs553066968 1:45129752 A/T 0.0019 5.9 × 10⁻¹⁰ 14 (8-26) rs572698005 1:45129772 C/T 0.0019 5.9 ×10⁻¹⁰ 14 (8-26) rs565464974 1:45170759 G/A 0.0009 2.4 × 10⁻¹³ 30 (16-55)rs748989559 1:45173569 A/G 0.0005 6.7 × 10⁻¹⁶ 53 (28-98) rs5480410031:45175146 C/T 0.0021 6.3 × 10⁻¹³ 16 (9-27) rs144279563 1:45294379 C/T0.0005 6.2 × 10⁻¹⁶ 53 (28-99) rs572162077 1:45354774 G/C 0.0010 1.0 ×10⁻¹⁵ 31 (18-55) ATM locus: associations with chr11q CNN-LOH rs53547323711:108074178 A/G 0.0004 1.8 × 10⁻⁸  61 (25-152) rs532198118 11:108355523A/G 0.0007 7.4 × 10⁻⁹  41 (18-94) Alleles: risk lowering/risk increasingallele. RAF: risk allele frequency (in UK Biobank European-ancestryindividuals).

TABLE 10 cis associations with biased loss of X (P_(bias) < 10⁻⁶) and Xgain data Loss of female chrX Gain of female chrX SNP Location A1/A2 A2FA2F_(case) P_(GWAS) N_(A1+) N_(A2+) P_(bias) A2F_(case) P_(GWAS) N_(A1+)N_(A2+) P_(bias) rs954958 X:55129982 C/T 0.471 0.452 4.9 × 10⁻³ 540 7167.6 × 10⁻⁷  0.407 0.25 4 6 0.75 rs10521478 X:55208161 A/G 0.417 0.3977.7 × 10⁻⁴ 515 713 1.8 × 10⁻⁸  0.370 0.38 5 5 1.00 rs1927307 X:55337294G/A 0.294 0.278 4.1 × 10⁻³ 436 621 1.4 × 10⁻⁸  0.241 0.33 1 5 0.22rs5914315 X:55354496 T/C 0.316 0.299  3.0 × 10⁻3 447 639 6.2 × 10⁻⁹ 0.296 0.65 2 5 0.45 rs12559108 X:55422562 T/C 0.260 0.243 1.4 × 10⁻³ 374572 1.3 × 10⁻¹⁰ 0.204 0.46 1 4 0.38 rs7892090 X:55432212 T/C 0.259 0.2421.5 × 10⁻³ 379 569 7.3 × 10⁻¹⁰ 0.241 0.88 1 4 0.38 rs57620007 X:55476740T/C 0.259 0.242 1.1 × 10⁻³ 377 568 5.6 × 10⁻¹⁰ 0.222 0.79 1 4 0.38rs3126241 X:55601683 T/C 0.253 0.234 2.3 × 10⁻⁴ 360 562 3.0 × 10⁻¹¹0.222 0.72 1 4 0.38 rs149700928 X:55684550 G/C 0.251 0.232 2.3 × 10⁻⁴357 555 5.8 × 10⁻¹¹ 0.222 0.75 1 4 0.38 rs5913856 X:55747717 A/G 0.2490.23 1.4 × 10⁻⁴ 349 558 4.0 × 10⁻¹² 0.222 0.77 1 4 0.38 rs1007153X:55778139 C/T 0.272 0.251 7.0 × 10⁻⁵ 363 592 1.2 × 10⁻¹³ 0.259 0.96 1 40.38 rs5914476 X:55852696 T/G 0.271 0.25 2.3 × 10⁻⁵ 358 590 4.7 × 10⁻¹⁴0.259 0.98 1 4 0.38 rs6612385 X:55853321 A/G 0.272 0.251 4.5 × 10⁻⁵ 364589 3.1 × 10⁻¹³ 0.259 0.96 1 4 0.38 rs10855058 X:55936822 G/A 0.2730.254 1.4 × 10⁻⁴ 385 592 3.7 × 10⁻¹¹ 0.222 0.50 1 5 0.22 rs6417935X:55960724 C/T 0.135 0.126 9.9 × 10⁻³ 219 352 2.9 × 10⁻⁸  0.018 0.05 0 11.00 rs6612472 X:56152985 A/G 0.241 0.222 1.1 × 10⁻⁴ 322 547 2.2 × 10⁻¹⁴0.167 0.30 2 3 1.00 rs4826461 X:56226649 A/G 0.234 0.218 4.5 × 10⁻⁴ 311539 4.8 × 10⁻¹⁵ 0.148 0.22 2 2 1.00 rs6521388 X:56345127 A/G 0.218 0.2064.8 × 10⁻³ 289 533 1.4 × 10⁻¹⁷ 0.111 0.11 1 1 1.00 rs5913935 X:56428273T/C 0.135 0.124 4.4 × 10⁻³ 203 356 9.9 × 10⁻¹¹ 0.037 0.09 1 1 1.00rs5914638 X:56456144 T/C 0.233 0.218 1.6 × 10⁻³ 305 557 7.3 × 10⁻¹⁸0.185 0.56 3 1 0.62 rs1332731 X:56495976 T/C 0.249 0.233 5.3 × 10⁻⁴ 327579 4.7 × 10⁻¹⁷ 0.204 0.59 3 2 1.00 rs721963 X:56558810 A/C 0.225 0.2114.7 × 10⁻³ 294 551 7.0 × 10⁻¹⁹ 0.130 0.17 2 1 1.00 rs766912 X:56630987A/G 0.224 0.21 1.7 × 10⁻³ 293 548 1.1 × 10⁻¹⁸ 0.130 0.20 2 1 1.00rs74503599 X:56640134 C/T 0.240 0.223 3.5 × 10⁻⁴ 312 566 8.1 × 10⁻¹⁸0.148 0.19 2 2 1.00 rs5914806 X:56847280 A/G 0.180 0.169 7.2 × 10⁻³ 249459 2.5 × 10⁻¹⁵ 0.074 0.09 1 1 1.00 rs5914815 X:56870961 T/C 0.179 0.1698.6 × 10⁻³ 250 460 2.8 × 10⁻¹⁵ 0.074 0.10 1 1 1.00 rs5960832 X:56894267C/T 0.210 0.222 7.9 × 10⁻³ 501 351 3.1 × 10⁻⁷  0.167 0.38 2 4 0.69rs5914035 X:57008216 T/C 0.225 0.212 3.3 × 10⁻³ 292 560 2.9 × 10⁻²⁰0.148 0.28 3 2 1.00 rs912956 X:57010138 T/C 0.207 0.195 5.1 × 10⁻³ 265532 1.9 × 10⁻²¹ 0.093 0.08 1 1 1.00 rs5914052 X:57129959 A/G 0.225 0.2133.6 × 10⁻³ 293 563 1.8 × 10⁻²⁰ 0.148 0.27 3 2 1.00 rs5960927 X:57241324G/A 0.209 0.222 6.7 × 10⁻³ 500 347 1.6 × 10⁻⁷  0.185 0.69 2 4 0.69rs2516023 X:57313357 T/C 0.226 0.212 2.3 × 10⁻³ 291 553 1.3 × 10⁻¹⁹0.148 0.28 3 2 1.00 rs6611612 X:57329089 A/G 0.227 0.213 1.3 × 10⁻³ 290551 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁹ 0.148 0.26 3 2 1.00 rs2060113 X:57478582 C/T 0.221 0.2096.8 × 10⁻³ 288 550 9.8 × 10⁻²⁰ 0.130 0.18 3 1 0.62 rs1594503 X:57480930C/T 0.244 0.231 8.6 × 10⁻⁴ 318 581 1.4 × 10⁻¹⁸ 0.167 0.29 3 2 1.00rs1997715 X:57622607 G/A 0.225 0.213 3.7 × 10⁻³ 294 550 9.1 × 10⁻¹⁹0.148 0.28 3 2 1.00 rs112877950 X:57624653 C/T 0.028 0.027 7.9 × 10⁻¹ 3098 1.3 × 10⁻⁹  0.018 0.67 0 0 1.00 rs73226048 X:57979353 T/C 0.221 0.2095.7 × 10⁻³ 283 545 5.8 × 10⁻²⁰ 0.111 0.10 2 1 1.00 rs55950555 X:57985647A/G 0.302 0.313 5.6 × 10⁻² 618 434 1.5 × 10⁻⁸  0.333 0.50 1 4 0.38rs13699645 X:58121440 A/G 0.026 0.025 6.9 × 10⁻¹ 29 86 9.8 × 10⁻⁸  0.0180.72 0 0 1.00 rs4625204 X:58216902 A/G 0.202 0.215 4.2 × 10⁻³ 499 3382.9 × 10⁻⁸  0.222 0.77 1 5 0.22 rs111318471 X:58328362 C/A 0.026 0.0266.8 × 10⁻¹ 29 82 4.9 × 10⁻⁷  0.018 0.76 0 0 1.00 rs2942875 X:58339545C/T 0.447 0.429 9.7 × 10⁻⁴ 423 796 6.6 × 10⁻²⁷ 0.315 0.07 6 1 0.12rs112064215 X:61994151 C/T 0.053 0.05 2.8 × 10⁻¹ 70 159 3.9 × 10⁻⁹ 0.056 0.96 1 0 1.00 rs60576970 X:61999396 A/C 0.493 0.513 9.4 × 10⁻⁴ 753505 2.8 × 10⁻¹² 0.500 0.88 1 5 0.22 rs62597976 X:62261609 G/T 0.3000.322 1.1 × 10⁻⁴ 646 446 1.6 × 10⁻⁹  0.259 0.44 1 6 0.12 rs56329621X:62520485 G/A 0.032 0.029 3.4 × 10⁻¹ 35 103 5.8 × 10⁻⁹  0.037 0.33 1 01.00 rs1221064 X:62529141 A/G 0.085 0.078 2.6 × 10⁻² 126 227 8.4 × 10⁻⁸ 0.074 0.87 1 0 1.00 rs112933767 X:63195237 A/G 0.042 0.041 9.2 × 10⁻¹ 63132 8.7 × 10⁻⁷  0.056 0.25 1 1 1.00 rs73213355 X:64965828 C/T 0.0600.061 6.0 × 10⁻¹ 196 108 5.1 × 10⁻⁷  0.074 0.76 1 1 1.00 rs3848896X:65182724 G/A 0.096 0.096 7.0 × 10⁻¹ 287 156 4.9 × 10⁻¹⁰ 0.111 0.79 3 10.62 rs7056244 X:65206855 G/A 0.070 0.074 1.9 × 10⁻¹ 240 121 3.7 × 10⁻¹⁰0.111 0.32 3 1 0.62 rs5918586 X:65328292 A/G 0.136 0.136 6.8 × 10⁻¹ 358227 6.8 × 10⁻⁸  0.130 0.78 4 1 0.38 rs12836051  X:114924811 A/G 0.1600.148 5.5 × 10⁻³ 257 405 9.7 × 10⁻⁹  0.125 0.50 2 4 0.69 rs73224841 X:114931929 T/G 0.022 0.022 7.6 × 10⁻¹ 32 86 6.9 × 10⁻⁷  0.018 0.81 1 01.00 rs73224844  X:114945104 G/A 0.022 0.022 5.3 × 10⁻¹ 30 86 1.9 ×10⁻⁷  0.018 0.83 1 0 1.00 rs11091036  X:115023111 G/C 0.266 0.249 1.1 ×10⁻³ 369 555 1.0 × 10⁹  0.304 0.50 6 6 1.00 A1, A2: major/minor allele.A2F: minor allele frequency. A2F_(case): A2 frequency in individualswith loss (resp. gain) of X. P_(GWAS): association with increased riskof X event. N_(A1+): number of heterozygous individuals with X loss(resp. gain) in which the A1/A2 allelic balance shifts toward the A1allele (and analogously for N_(A2+)). P_(bias): P-value for biasedshift.

TABLE 11 No evidence for rs2942875-biased X inactivation in GEUVADISRNA-seq data HG00122 Read counts HG00130 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 2 1rs2516023 T/C 8 0 rs1367830 C/T 3 2 rs1367830 C/T 9 0 rs2060113 C/T 1 10.60 rs2060113 C/T 1 0 1.00 Total maj/min 6 4 Total maj/min 18 0 HG00231Read counts HG00232 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 0 5 rs2516023 T/C 0 1rs1367830 C/T 0 8 rs1367830 C/T 0 6 rs2060113 C/T 0 4 rs2060113 C/T 0 4Total maj/min 0 17 0.00 Total maj/min 0 11 0.00 HG00266 Read countsHG00276 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 2 0 rs2516023 T/C 0 2 rs1367830 C/T 100 rs1367830 C/T 1 10 rs2060113 C/T 9 0 rs2060113 C/T 0 3 Total maj/min21 0 1.00 Total maj/min 1 15 0.06 HG00327 Read counts HG00332 Readcounts rs2516023 T/C 0 4 rs2516023 T/C 0 8 rs1367830 C/T 0 4 rs1367830C/T 1 6 rs2060113 C/T 0 2 rs2060113 C/T 1 3 Total maj/min 0 10 0.00Total maj/min 2 17 0.11 HG00353 Read counts HG00362 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 0 0 rs2516023 T/C 0 2 rs1367830 C/T 0 12 rs1367830 C/T 3 5rs2060113 C/T 1 4 rs2060113 C/T 2 1 Total maj/min 1 16 0.06 Totalmaj/min 5 8 0.38 HG01790 Read counts NA06985 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 00 rs2516023 T/C 2 0 rs1367830 C/T 3 2 rs1367830 C/T 4 0 rs2060113 C/T 02 rs2060113 C/T 6 0 Total maj/min 3 4 0.43 Total maj/min 12 0 1.00NA11830 Read counts NA11832 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 1 2 rs2516023 T/C0 6 rs1367830 C/T 3 6 rs1367830 C/T 0 9 rs2060113 C/T 1 3 rs2060113 C/T0 1 Total maj/min 5 11 0.31 Total maj/min 0 16 0.00 NA12058 Read countsNA12156 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 0 10 rs2516023 T/C 1 4 rs1367830 C/T 011 rs1367830 C/T 4 5 rs2060113 C/T 0 3 rs2060113 C/T 0 1 Total maj/min 024 0.00 Total maj/min 5 10 0.33 NA12283 Read counts NA12341 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 2 0 rs2516023 T/C 7 1 rs1367830 C/T 10 0 rs1367830 C/T 9 0rs2060113 C/T 3 0 rs2060113 C/T 6 0 Total maj/min 15 0 1.00 Totalmaj/min 22 1 0.96 NA12718 Read counts NA12815 Read counts rs2516023 T/C0 2 rs2516023 T/C 0 3 rs1367830 C/T 0 9 rs1367830 C/T 1 7 rs2060113 C/T0 4 rs2060113 C/T 0 3 Total maj/min 0 15 0.00 Total maj/min 1 13 0.07NA20502 Read counts NA20503 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 2 0 rs2516023 T/C0 0 rs1367830 C/T 4 0 rs1367830 C/T 1 0 rs2060113 C/T 0 0 rs2060113 C/T1 0 Total maj/min 6 0 1.00 Total maj/min 2 0 1.00 NA20508 Read countsNA20514 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 3 0 rs2516023 T/C 2 2 rs1367830 C/T 31 rs1367830 C/T 3 3 rs2060113 C/T 1 0 rs2060113 C/T 2 1 Total maj/min 71 0.88 Total maj/min 7 6 0.54 NA20541 Read counts NA20582 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 5 0 rs2516023 T/C 4 2 rs1367830 C/T 4 0 rs1367830 C/T 12 4rs2060113 C/T 0 0 rs2060113 C/T 4 2 Total maj/min 9 0 1.00 Total maj/min20 8 0.71 NA20756 Read counts NA20761 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 2 13rs2516023 T/C 1 6 rs1367830 C/T 0 8 rs1367830 C/T 3 8 rs2060113 C/T 0 0rs2060113 C/T 1 2 Total maj/min 2 21 0.09 Total maj/min 5 16 0.24NA20799 Read counts NA20800 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 0 4 rs2516023 T/C0 1 rs1367830 C/T 0 8 rs1367830 C/T 0 11 rs2060113 C/C — — rs2060113 C/T0 4 Total maj/min 0 12 0.00 Total maj/min 0 16 0.00 NA20819 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 4 0 rs1367830 C/T 5 2 rs2060113 C/T 3 1 Total maj/min 12 30.80 HG00133 Read counts HG00158 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 2 2 rs2516023T/C 3 1 rs1367830 C/T 6 8 rs1367830 C/T 2 5 rs2060113 C/T 2 1 rs2060113C/T 1 2 Total maj/min 10 11 0.48 Total maj/min 6 8 0.43 HG00239 Readcounts HG00257 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 3 2 rs2516023 T/C 1 0 rs1367830C/T 4 3 rs1367830 C/T 1 1 rs2060113 C/T 1 2 rs2060113 C/T 0 1 Totalmaj/min 8 7 0.53 Total maj/min 2 2 0.50 HG00315 Read counts HG00323 Readcounts rs2516023 T/C 2 3 rs2516023 T/C 4 4 rs1367830 C/T 6 2 rs1367830C/T 3 3 rs2060113 C/T 1 1 rs2060113 C/T 1 0 Total maj/min 9 6 0.60 Totalmaj/min 8 7 0.53 HG00334 Read counts HG00337 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 04 rs2516023 T/C 2 1 rs1367830 C/T 0 8 rs1367830 C/T 2 2 rs2060113 C/T 03 rs2060113 C/T 0 0 Total maj/min 0 15 0.00 Total maj/min 4 3 0.57HG00364 Read counts HG00381 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 8 2 rs2516023 T/C1 0 rs1367830 C/T 7 6 rs1367830 C/T 1 4 rs2060113 C/T 3 3 rs2060113 C/T1 3 Total maj/min 18 11 0.62 Total maj/min 3 7 0.30 NA07037 Read countsNA07056 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 7 0 rs2516023 T/C 0 3 rs1367830 C/T 130 rs1367830 C/T 1 1 rs2060113 C/T 7 0 rs2060113 C/T 0 1 Total maj/min 270 1.00 Total maj/min 1 5 0.17 NA11892 Read counts NA11931 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 3 0 rs2516023 T/C 0 4 rs1367830 C/T 4 0 rs1367830 C/T 0 1rs2060113 C/T 2 0 rs2060113 C/T 0 0 Total maj/min 9 0 1.00 Total maj/min0 5 0.00 NA12234 Read counts NA12275 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 1 0rs2516023 T/C 0 6 rs1367830 C/T 5 1 rs1367830 C/T 0 12 rs2060113 C/T 1 0rs2060113 C/T 0 7 Total maj/min 7 1 0.88 Total maj/min 0 25 0.00 NA12383Read counts NA12489 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 2 0 rs2516023 T/C 0 0rs1367830 C/T 10 1 rs1367830 C/T 1 5 rs2060113 C/T 4 0 rs2060113 C/T 2 1Total maj/min 16 1 0.94 Total maj/min 3 6 0.33 NA12843 Read countsNA12890 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 1 6 rs2516023 T/C 3 0 rs1367830 C/T 15 rs1367830 C/T 10 0 rs2060113 C/T 1 4 rs2060113 C/T 5 0 Total maj/min 315 0.17 Total maj/min 18 0 1.00 NA20505 Read counts NA20507 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 4 1 rs2516023 T/C 3 0 rs1367830 C/T 7 0 rs1367830 C/T 6 4rs2060113 C/T 3 0 rs2060113 C/T 5 2 Total maj/min 14 1 0.93 Totalmaj/min 14 6 0.70 NA20529 Read counts NA20531 Read counts rs2516023 T/C5 0 rs2516023 T/C 4 1 rs1367830 C/T 11 1 rs1367830 C/T 6 7 rs2060113 C/T3 0 rs2060113 C/T 3 4 Total maj/min 19 1 0.95 Total maj/min 13 12 0.52NA20585 Read counts NA20589 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 0 2 rs2516023 T/C0 0 rs1367830 C/T 0 5 rs1367830 C/T 6 0 rs2060113 C/T 0 1 rs2060113 C/T2 0 Total maj/min 0 8 0.00 Total maj/min 8 0 1.00 NA20771 Read countsNA20797 Read counts rs2516023 T/C 4 2 rs2516023 T/C 11 0 rs1367830 C/T 36 rs1367830 C/T 9 1 rs2060113 C/T 2 0 rs2060113 C/T 4 0 Total maj/min 98 0.53 Total maj/min 24 1 0.96 NA20807 Read counts NA20813 Read countsrs2516023 T/C 1 3 rs2516023 T/C 0 4 rs1367830 C/T 3 8 rs1367830 C/T 1 7rs2060113 C/T 3 4 rs2060113 C/T 1 4 Total maj/min 7 15 0.32 Totalmaj/min 2 15 0.12

TABLE 12 trans association with classes of somatic SVs at SNPspreviously reported to be associated with related phenotypes Gene(s)GWAS PCNN- Pauto PX SNP Location reported MAF trait Pany Ploss LOH PgainPauto loss loss rs2736609  1:156202640 PMF1, 0.36 mLOY 0.5 0.69 0.470.92 0.68 0.62 0.95 SEMA4A rs11125529  2:54475866 ACYP2 0.14 telo 0.550.35 0.082 1 0.21 0.95 0.25 rs13401811  2:111616104 ACOXL, 0.18 CLL 0.570.67 0.71 0.74 0.51 0.73 0.84 BCL2L11 rs17483466  2:111797458 ACOXL, 0.2CLL 0.12 0.76 0.11 0.92 0.15 0.72 0.5 BCL2L11 rs58055674  2:111831793ACOXL 0.18 CLL 0.2 0.45 0.75 0.78 0.56 0.95 0.28 rs1439287  2:111871897ACOXL, 0.49 CLL 0.28 0.28 0.71 0.59 0.92 0.21 0.36 BCL2L11 rs9308731 2:111908262 BCL2L11 0.45 CLL 0.37 0.55 0.51 0.4 0.96 0.14 0.21rs13015798  2:201909515 FAM126B, 0.33 CLL 0.0067 0.59 0.11 0.061 0.0150.87 0.16 CASP8 rs3769825  2:202111380 CASP8, 0.43 CLL 0.14 0.032 0.780.21 0.49 0.24 0.095 CASP10 rs13397985  2:231091223 SP140 0.19 CLL 0.0280.00026 0.91 0.25 0.13 0.0049 0.015 rs9880772  3:27777779 EOMES 0.45 CLL0.69 0.16 0.59 0.14 0.97 0.6 0.87 rs115854006  3:48388170 TREX1, 0.036mLOY 0.4 0.55 0.81 0.28 0.17 0.075 0.9 PLXNB1 rs13088318  3:101242751SENP7 0.34 mLOY 0.75 0.55 0.24 0.15 0.24 0.29 0.68 rs59633341 3:150018880 TSC22D2 0.16 mLOY 0.47 0.44 0.26 0.14 0.31 0.96 0.8rs2201862  3:168648039 EGFEM1P, 0.5 MPN 0.13 0.38 0.75 0.0091 0.35 0.340.36 MECOM rs10936599  3:169492101 MYNN 0.25 CLL, telo 0.095 0.22 0.40.6 0.16 0.28 0.62 rs9815073  3:188115682 LPP 0.34 CLL 0.26 0.49 0.0410.066 0.054 0.53 0.54 rs1548483  4:105749895 TET2 0.034 MPN 0.67 0.190.3 0.34 0.71 0.13 0.48 rs898518  4:109016824 LEF1 0.42 CLL 0.95 0.950.58 0.58 0.39 0.59 0.76 rs6858698  4:114683844 CAMK2D 0.16 CLL 0.630.57 0.24 0.54 0.76 0.052 0.69 rs7675998  4:164007820 NAF1 0.22 telo0.48 0.6 0.69 0.62 0.42 0.085 0.67 rs34002450 5:1280940 TERT 0.38 CH0.0031 0.092 0.0012 0.026 7.8 × 10⁻⁵ 0.0019 0.75 rs7705526 5:1285974TERT 0.33 MPN 0.00052 0.036 8.6 × 10⁻⁵ 0.16 4.8 × 10⁻⁵ 0.0092 0.2rs2736100 5:1286516 TERT 0.5 MPN, telo 0.0014 0.069 0.00095 0.12 0.000980.062 0.24 rs2853677 5:1287194 TERT 0.42 MPN 0.0043 0.44 0.00036 0.440.0014 0.38 0.92 rs56084922  5:111061883 NR 0.078 mLOY 0.58 0.38 0.730.19 0.64 0.36 0.78 rs9391997 6:409119  IRF4 0.47 CLL 0.92 0.62 0.380.93 0.66 0.73 0.68 rs872071 6:411064  IRF4 0.47 CLL 0.99 0.7 0.35 0.970.69 0.73 0.75 rs73718779 6:2969278 SERPINB6 0.11 CLL 0.59 0.86 0.850.57 0.57 0.73 0.02 rs926070  6:32257566 HLA 0.34 CLL 1 0.94 0.16 0.120.87 0.29 0.52 rs674313  6:32578082 HLA-DRB5 0.24 CLL 0.86 0.14 0.190.95 0.37 0.58 0.082 rs9273363  6:32626272 HLA 0.3 CLL 0.46 1 0.59 0.070.053 0.014 0.19 rs210142  6:33546837 BAK1 0.3 CLL 0.63 0.44 0.99 0.90.92 0.58 0.4 rs13191948  6:109634599 SMPD2, 0.46 mLOY 0.45 0.95 0.870.67 0.85 0.47 0.18 CCDC162P rs2236256  6:154478440 IPCEF1 0.46 CLL 0.720.099 0.41 0.39 0.82 0.2 0.53 rs381500  6:164478388 QKI 0.45 mLOY 0.490.63 0.17 0.43 0.083 0.068 0.56 rs4721217 7:1973579 MAD1L1 0.4 mLOY0.0055 0.69 0.28 0.01 0.009 0.57 0.45 rs17246404  7:124462661 POTI 0.28CLL 0.99 0.3 0.78 0.029 0.53 0.29 0.58 rs58270997  7:130729394 PINT 0.25MPN 0.049 0.039 0.039 0.45 0.29 0.94 0.34 rs35091702  8:30279470 RBPMS0.26 mLOY 0.58 0.21 0.88 0.85 0.52 0.97 0.055 rs2511714  8:103578874ODF1, 0.4 CLL 0.034 0.13 0.34 0.46 0.6 0.32 0.011 KLF10 rs2466035 8:128211229 MYC 0.33 CLL 0.59 0.55 0.25 0.65 0.89 0.25 0.34 rs593843779:5005034 JAK2 0.26 MPN 0.057 0.012 0.97 0.74 0.37 0.024 0.18 rs123396669:5063296 JAK2 0.26 MPN 0.11 0.027 0.98 0.87 0.4 0.032 0.35 rs109749449:5070831 JAK2 0.25 MPN 0.036 0.013 0.66 0.99 0.17 0.0097 0.46 rs1679013 9:22206987 AS1, 0.46 CLL 0.42 0.5 0.56 0.33 0.47 0.2 0.7 CDKN2Brs1359742  9:22336996 DMRTA1, 0.47 CLL 0.9 0.6 0.26 0.64 0.54 0.042 0.3CDKN2B- AS1 rs621940  9:135870130 GFI1B 0.16 MPN 0.74 0.52 0.073 0.250.44 0.18 0.52 rs1800682 10:90749963 ACTA, 0.46 CLL 0.023 0.033 0.120.29 0.037 0.39 0.92 FAS rs4406737 10:90759724 ACTA2, 0.44 CLL 0.45 0.510.3 0.15 0.15 0.35 0.59 FAS rs9420907  10:105676465 0BFC1 0.13 telo 0.320.057 0.99 0.87 0.45 0.059 0.13 rs7944004 11:2311152  TSPAN32 0.49 CLL0.69 0.5 0.66 0.27 0.29 0.021 0.37 rs2521269 11:2321095  C11orf21 0.46CLL 0.095 0.27 0.76 0.18 0.099 0.18 0.3 rs4754301  11:108048541 NPAT,0.45 mLOY 0.95 0.9 0.44 0.19 0.51 0.46 0.74 ATM, ACAT1 rs1800056 11:108138003 ATM 0.013 MPN 0.099 0.26 0.25 0.54 0.093 0.77 0.77rs35923643  11:123355391 GRAMD1B 0.2 CLL 0.027 0.045 0.11 0.049 0.00910.071 0.31 rs735665  11:123361397 SCN3B, 0.19 CLL 0.055 0.049 0.17 0.0340.016 0.08 0.34 GRAMD1B rs2953196  11:123368333 NR 0.25 CLL 0.049 0.10.81 0.22 0.06 0.31 0.87 rs7310615  12:111865049 SH2B3 0.48 MPN 0.390.47 0.85 0.86 0.86 0.33 0.25 rs10687116 13:41678081 WBP4 0.2 mLOY 0.760.59 0.72 0.6 0.8 0.99 0.73 rs1122138 14:96180242 TCL1A 0.16 mLOY 0.330.37 0.23 0.54 0.07 0.051 0.48 rs2887399 14:96180695 TCL1A 0.2 mLOY 0.310.79 0.088 0.61 0.064 0.095 0.49 rs137952017  14:101176090 DLK1 0.15mLOY 0.018 0.15 0.25 0.0031 0.071 0.68 0.36 rs8024033 15:40403657 BMF0.5 CLL 0.083 0.83 0.029 0.45 0.011 0.068 0.4 rs11636802 15:56775597MNS1, 0.11 CLL 0.32 0.79 0.65 0.37 0.36 0.8 0.84 RFXDC2 rs7274268415:56780767 MNS1, 0.11 CLL 0.35 0.89 0.6 0.34 0.35 0.92 0.7 RFX7rs2052702 15:69989505 PCAT29 0.38 CLL 0.85 0.98 0.75 0.96 0.7 0.46 0.47rs7176508 15:70018990 RPLP1 0.38 CLL 0.93 0.86 0.62 0.89 0.54 0.42 0.37rs12448368 16:81044947 CENPN, 0.13 mLOY 0.034 0.26 0.24 0.34 0.075 0.370.24 ATMIN rs391023 16:85927814 IRF8 0.36 CLL 0.077 0.37 0.0067 0.310.064 0.84 0.012 rs391855 16:85928621 IRF8 0.42 CLL 0.0099 0.18 0.00130.37 0.015 0.85 0.016 rs391525 16:85944439 IRF8 0.34 CLL 0.025 0.0450.0073 0.92 0.023 0.076 0.24 rs1044873 16:85955671 IRF8 0.39 CLL 0.0340.13 0.0055 0.97 0.024 0.15 0.4 rs78378222 17:7571752  TP53 0.013 mLOY0.037 3.2 × 10⁻⁵ 0.99 0.29 0.42 0.0044 0.0059 rs77522818 17:47817373FAM117A 0.043 mLOY 0.011 0.077 0.08 0.53 0.013 0.091 0.36 rs1108239618:42080720 SETBP1 0.13 mLOY 0.22 0.37 0.5 0.42 0.44 0.99 0.78 rs436825318:57622287 PMAIP1 0.32 CLL 0.59 0.87 0.89 0.086 0.54 0.55 0.83rs4987856 18:60793494 BCL2 0.097 CLL 0.25 0.49 0.083 0.29 0.19 0.15 0.44rs4987855 18:60793549 BCL2 0.097 CLL 0.34 0.52 0.14 0.37 0.28 0.14 0.44rs4987852 18:60793921 BCL2 0.07 CLL 0.85 0.99 0.7 0.68 0.8 0.91 0.4rs17758695 18:60920854 BCL2 0.03 mLOY 0.61 0.2 0.45 0.036 0.83 0.32 0.23rs8105767 19:22215441 ZNF208 0.29 telo 0.62 0.98 0.18 0.12 0.22 0.720.81 rs11083846 19:47207654 PRKD2, 0.23 CLL 0.088 0.36 0.025 0.51 0.140.4 0.36 STRN4 rs60084722 20:30355738 TPX2, 0.21 mLOY 0.018 0.0051 0.0490.77 0.17 0.51 0.16 BCL2L1, HM13 rs755017 20:62421622 RTEL1 0.13 telo0.0047 0.0064 0.16 0.61 0.023 0.15 0.14 rs555607708 22:29091856 CHEK20.0019 MPN 0.0038 0.01 0.00012 0.3 7.7 × 10⁻⁵ 1.8 × 10⁻⁶ 0.76

TABLE 13 Risk increase for incident cancers conferred by somatic SVs CLLMPN Any blood cancer Any non-blood cancer SV P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI)P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI)  1p= 1 0 (0-40) 0.046 22.1 (0.54-133) 0.41.96 (0.05-11.3) 0.72 0.79 (0.31-1.69)  1q= 1 0 (0-51.9) 1 0 (0-110)0.34 2.44 (0.06-14.1) 0.43 1.31 (0.58-2.61)  2p− 0.027 38.1 (0.91-241) 10 (0-436) 0.13 7.55 (0.18-46.6) 0.0044 3.57 (1.4-8.12) 3+ 7.8 × 10⁻⁵ 190(19.6-936) 1 0 (0-749) 8.5 × 10⁻⁸ 43.2 (7.76-161) 0.1 3.06 (0.55-11.3) 3q= 1 0 (0-423) 1 0 (0-780) 1 0 (0-74.3) 0.0026 5.37 (1.69-14.8)  4q− 10 (0-133) 1 0 (0-316) 0.15 6.34 (0.15-38.8) 0.73 0.41 (0.01-2.49)  4q= 10 (0-159) 1 0 (0-328) 0.011 13.4 (1.53-54.7) 0.72 0.41 (0.01-2.5)  5q− 10 (0-167) 0.011 93.4 (2.21-614) 0.0082 16 (1.81-65.8) 0.26 0 (0-1.86) 10 (0-230) 1 0 (0-417) 1 0 (0-40.9) 0.43 1.7 (0.33-5.7)  6p= 1 0 (0-165)1 0 (0-286) 1 0 (0-26.5) 1 0.78 (0.09-3.04)  7q− 1 0 (0-137) 1 0 (0-323)0.15 6.25 (0.15-38.5) 1 0.79 (0.09-3.18) 8+ 0.018 60.8 (1.41-410) 1 0(0-606) 6.8 × 10⁻⁸ 62.6 (17.5-186) 0.65 1.48 (0.16-6.42)  8q= 1 0(0-257) 1 0 (0-460) 1 0 (0-44.9) 1 0.64 (0.02-3.98) 9+ 1 0 (0-324) 1 0(0-665) 1 0 (0-54.3) 0.067 3.02 (0.71-9.8)  9p= 1 0 (0-89.4) 1.6 × 10⁻²560 (225-1.26e+03) 1.1 × 10⁻¹ 39.5 (16.8-83.1) 0.42 1.37 (0.42-3.46) 9q= 1 0 (0-69.3) 1 0 (0-155) 1 0 (0-12.9) 1 1 (0.31-2.46) 10q− 1 0(0-205) 1 0 (0-310) 1 0 (0-34.7) 0.32 1.63 (0.42-4.54) 11q− 0.0006 61.2(6.93-251) 1 0 (0-271) 0.00099 16.9 (3.29-54.8) 0.12 2.11 (0.72-5.15)11p= 1 0 (0-52.5) 1 0 (0-96.5) 1 0 (0-8.84) 0.08 1.74 (0.86-3.21) 11q= 10 (0-53.6) 0.032 32.6 (0.79-202) 0.0076 7.88 (1.57-24.3) 1 0.84(0.26-2.07) 12+   1.2 × 10⁻²⁰ 173 (78.1-355) 1 0 (0-131)  2 × 10⁻¹⁵ 33.9(17-62.7) 0.52 0.64 (0.17-1.73) 12q= 1 0 (0-126) 1 0 (0-296) 1 0(0-24.2) 0.76 1.07 (0.21-3.43) 13q−  3.4 × 10⁻¹⁹ 185 (80.2-392) 1 0(0-134) 1.1 × 10⁻¹ 29.5 (13.3-58.9) 0.49 0.55 (0.11-1.68) 13q= 3.3 ×10⁻⁷ 81.5 (20.7-233) 1 0 (0-149) 0.00026 14 (3.67-38.4) 1 0.88(0.23-2.38) 14+  1 0 (0-118) 1 0 (0-291) 1 0 (0-22.7) 0.51 0.37(0.01-2.23) 14q− 0.00017 123 (13.3-540) 1 0 (0-488) 0.00023 29.4(5.48-102) 1 0.68 (0.02-4.36) 14q= 1 0 (0-34.7) 0.0014 38.4 (4.45-151)0.0035 6.74 (1.8-17.9) 0.039 1.73 (0.99-2.86) 15+  1 0 (0-65.7) 1 0(0-160) 0.28 3.13 (0.08-18.6) 0.81 1.03 (0.32-2.6) 15q= 1 0 (0-57) 1 0(0-116) 0.32 2.65 (0.07-15.4) 0.53 1.27 (0.53-2.63) 16p= 1 0 (0-84.4) 10 (0-190) 0.0022 12.4 (2.45-39.1) 0.59 1.31 (0.41-3.29) 16q= 1 0 (0-112)1 0 (0-228) 1 0 (0-19.6) 0.57 1.25 (0.32-3.47) 17+  1 0 (0-181) 1 0(0-487) 0.11 9.2 (0.22-58.1) 0.7 1.1 (0.13-4.53) 17p− 1 0 (0-140) 1 0(0-389) 0.01 14.1 (1.61-57.3) 0.73 1.26 (0.24-4.1) 17q= 1 0 (0-83) 1 0(0-169) 1 0 (0-14.4) 1 0.92 (0.24-2.51) 18+  0.031 33.6 (0.8-214) 1 0(0-306) 0.00075 19 (3.63-63.5) 0.34 1.58 (0.4-4.64) 19p= 1 0 (0-159) 1 0(0-419) 1 0 (0-30.2) 0.26 0 (0-1.83) 19q= 1 0 (0-133) 1 0 (0-314) 1 0(0-24.9) 0.51 0.39 (0.01-2.35) 20q− 1 0 (0-47.3) 1 0 (0-108) 0.0013 9.1(2.4-24.6) 0.33 1.43 (0.66-2.79) 20q= 1 0 (0-187) 1 0 (0-360) 1 0(0-34.1) 0.26 0 (0-1.91) 21+  1 0 (0-225) 1 0 (0-437) 0.1 9.59(0.23-61.3) 1 0.61 (0.01-3.85) 21q= 1 0 (0-236) 1 0 (0-462) 1 0 (0-41.9)0.42 1.77 (0.33-6.06) 22+  0.042 24.4 (0.59-151) 1 0 (0-218) 0.2 4.5(0.11-26.9) 0.58 0.56 (0.07-2.18) 22q− 1.2 × 10⁻⁸ 207 (49-654) 1 0(0-494) 8.7 × 10⁻⁶ 37.4 (9.1-115) 1 0.65 (0.02-4.23) 22q= 1 0 (0-80.7) 10 (0-172) 1 0 (0-14.6) 0.47 1.31 (0.46-3.05) −X 1 0.82 (0.02-4.99) 1 0(0-13) 0.38 0.54 (0.11-1.63) 0.45 1.08 (0.88-1.33)

TABLE 14 Risk increase for mortality during ~7-year follow-up conferredby somatic SVs. Cancer status SV type at assessment P HR (95% CI) (a)All-cause mortality risk increase conferred by somatic SVs Loss Noprevious Dx 1.3 × 10⁻⁷ 2.08 (1.58-2.73) Loss Previous Dx  5.4 × 10⁻¹⁰2.76 (2.00-3.80) CNN-LOH No previous Dx 0.01 1.36 (1.07-1.71) CNN-LOHPrevious Dx 6.2 × 10⁻⁵ 1.81 (1.35-2.42) Gain No previous Dx 0.00021 1.92(1.36-2.70) Gain Previous Dx 0.0055 1.97 (1.22-3.19) (b) Non-cancermortality risk increase conferred by somatic SVs Loss No previous Dx0.0017 1.93 (1.28-2.92) Loss Previous Dx 0.00015 3.22 (1.76-5.89)CNN-LOH No previous Dx 0.19 1.26 (0.89-1.79) CNN-LOH Previous Dx 0.041.84 (1.03-3.28) Gain No previous Dx 0.096 1.59 (0.92-2.75) GainPrevious Dx 0.31 1.67 (0.62-4.50)

Various modifications and variations of the described methods, computerprogram products, systems and kits of the invention will be apparent tothose skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit ofthe invention. Although the invention has been described in connectionwith specific embodiments, it will be understood that it is capable offurther modifications and that the invention as claimed should not beunduly limited to such specific embodiments. Indeed, variousmodifications of the described modes for carrying out the invention thatare obvious to those skilled in the art are intended to be within thescope of the invention. This application is intended to cover anyvariations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general,the principles of the invention and including such departures from thepresent disclosure come within known customary practice within the artto which the invention pertains and may be applied to the essentialfeatures herein before set forth.

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1. A computer-implemented method to detect somatic structural variants(SV), comprising; determining, using one or more computing devices,total and relative allelic intensities for one or more samples; masking,using the one or more computing devices, constitutional segmentalduplications in each sample of the one or more samples; identifying,using the one or more computing devices, a putative set of somatic SVevents for each sample in the one or more samples; and defining, usingthe one or more computing devices, one or more somatic SV events foreach sample of the one or more samples, based at least in part onapplication of a likelihood ratio test to the putative set of somatic SVevents.
 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising locating, using theone or more computing devices, a chromosomal location of each identifiedsomatic SV event for each sample in the one or more samples.
 3. Themethod of claim 2, further comprising determining, using the one or morecomputing devices, a copy number of each identified somatic SV event forreach sample in the one or more samples.
 4. The method of claim 1,further comprising detecting, using the one or more computing devices,multiple sub-clonal events for each identified somatic SV event.
 5. Themethod of claim 1, wherein determining the total and relative allelicfrequencies comprises converting genotype intensity data into log R₂ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF) values.
 6. The method of claim1, wherein masking the constitutional segmental duplications comprisesmodeling, using the one or more computing devices, observed phased BAFdeviations (pBAF).
 7. The method of claim 6, wherein modeling theobserved pBAFs is performed by modeling across individual chromosomesusing a 25-state hidden Markov model (HMM) with states corresponding topBAF values.
 8. The method of claim 7, further comprising selectingregions to mask, which comprises computing the Viterbi path through theHMM and examining contiguous regions of nonzero states.
 9. The method ofclaim 1, wherein identifying the putative set of somatic SV eventscomprises use of a 3-state HMM.
 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the3-state HMM is parameterized by a single parameter representing mean|ΔBAF| within a given somatic SV event.
 11. The method of claim 2,wherein locating the chromosomal location of each identified somatic SVevent comprises taking 5 samples from the posterior of the 3-state HMMand determining the boundaries of each SV event based on a consensus ofthe 5 samples.
 12. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the copynumber of each identified somatic SV event comprises determining arelative probability that the event was a loss, CNN-LOH, or gain basedat least in part on the LRR and |ΔBAF| deviation.
 13. The method ofclaim 4, wherein detecting multiple sub-clonal events comprisesre-analyzing each identified somatic SV using Viterbi decoding on a51-state HMM with |ΔBAF| levels ranging from 0.01 to 0.25 inmultiplicative increments.
 14. The method of claim 1, further comprisingdetecting a disease or susceptibility to a disease based on detection ofthe one or more somatic SV events.
 15. The method of claim 14, whereinthe disease is cancer.
 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the cancercomprises a hematological cancer.
 17. The method of claim 16, whereinthe hematological cancer is a leukemia.
 18. The method of claim 16,wherein the leukemia is chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
 19. Themethod of claim 14, where the detected one or more SV events compriseone or more SV events selected from Table
 13. 20. A computer programproduct, comprising: A non-transitory computer-executable storage devicehaving computer-readable program instructions embodied thereon that whenexecuted by a computer cause the computer to detect somatic structuralvariants (SVs) from genotyping data, the computer-executable programinstructions comprising: computer-executable program instruction todetermine total and relative allelic intensities for one or moresamples; computer-executable program instructions to mask constitutionalsegmental duplications; computer-executable program instructions toidentify a putative set of somatic SV events for each sample in the oneor more samples; and computer-executable program instructions to defineone or more somatic SV events for each sample of the one or moresamples.
 21. The computer program product of claim 20 further comprisingcomputer-executable program instruction to locate a chromosomal locationof each identified somatic SV event for each sample in the one or moresamples.
 22. The computer program product of claim 21, furthercomprising computer-executable program instructions to determine a copynumber of each identified somatic SV event.
 23. The computer programproduct of claim 20, further comprising computer-executable programinstruction to detect multiple sub-clonal events for each identifiedsomatic SV.
 24. The computer program product of claim 23, whereindetermining total and relative allelic frequencies comprises convertinggenotype intensity data into log R₂ ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency(BAF) values.
 25. The computer program product of claim 24, whereinidentifying the putative set of somatic SV events comprises use of a3-state HMM.
 26. The computer program product of claim 25, wherein the3-state HMM is parameterized by a single parameter representing mean|ΔBAF| within a given somatic SV event.
 27. The computer program productof claim 26, further comprising detecting a disease or susceptibility toa disease based on detection of the one or more somatic SV events. 28.The computer program product of claim 27, wherein the disease is cancer.29. The computer program product of claim 28, wherein the cancer is ahematological cancer.
 30. The computer program product of claim 29,wherein the hematological cancer is a leukemia.
 31. The computer programproduct of claim 30, wherein the leukemia is chronic lymphocyticleukemia.
 32. A system to detect one or somatic SV events, the systemcomprising: a storage device; and a processor communicatively coupled tothe storage device, wherein the processor executes application codeinstructions that are stored in the storage device and that cause thesystem to: determine total and relative allelic intensities for one ormore samples; mask constitutional segmental duplications; identify aputative set of somatic SV events for each sample in the one or moresamples; and define one or more somatic SV events for each sample of theone or more samples.
 33. A kit comprising reagents for determiningallelic frequencies and the computer program product of claim
 20. 34. Amethod for detecting presence or susceptibility of a condition insubject, the method comprising detecting one or more somatic structuralvariants according to claim 1 in nucleic acids in a sample from thesubject, wherein presence or absence of the one or more somaticstructural variants indicates the presence or susceptibility of thecondition.
 35. The method of claim 34, wherein the nucleic acids arecell-free nucleic acids.
 36. The method of claim 34, wherein the sampleis maternal blood and the cell-free nucleic acids are fetal cell-freenucleic acids.
 37. The method of claim 35, wherein the cell-free nucleicacids are circulating tumor DNA.
 38. The method of claim 34, wherein thecondition is fetal aneuploidy or cancer.
 39. (canceled)
 40. The methodof claim 34, further comprising performing a medical procedure based onthe detected presence or susceptibility of the condition.